From Across The Pond, SSTL Opens U.S. Subsidiary
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has established a new subsidiary in the United States to take advantage of the growing international demand for economical, responsive, and highly capable spacecraft for a broad range of applications. The new company,
Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC (
SST-US), has opened an office in Colorado and will eventually have centers in California and Washington DC enabling SSTL to work closer and more efficiently with its customers. From the day it was founded, SSTL has had a long association with the U.S. The first satellite,
UoSAT-1, was launched in 1981 in collaboration with
NASA. Since then, there have been a number of notable achievements, including the provision of
PICOSat to the US Air Force in 2001 and the development of a platform for
Los Alamos National Laboratories for the
CFESat mission. More recently, SSTL has been collaborating with
Mississippi State University on a range of small satellite initiatives which include lunar studies. SST-US will start by building on the relationships already established by SSTL and will rapidly expand into a self-contained US entity designing, building, and operating a range of spacecraft and sub-systems using U.S. staff.
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