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The Appleton Lecture was established in 1965 to commemorate the life and work of Sir Edward Appleton, a widely honoured physicist and Nobel Prize winner who is mainly noted for research into the upper…

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Small Satellites - Big Future

Duration: 1 hr 5 mins
Publication date: 19 Jan 2010
Part of series The Appleton Lecture Series

Abstract

Since the early 1980s, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) has pioneered the development of small satellites, commonly named "microsatellites". SSTL has designed, built and launched over 30 of these microsatellites and, through this work, SSTL is "changing the economics of space".

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