Great to see SSTL Optical Payload Assembly technician, Cliff Slogrove, looking satisfied whilst taking a break from machining the Focal Plane Assembly on one of our Earth Observation satellite cameras.

Fantastic to see SSTL's Ramy Kozman delivering a presentation at the Lunar Interoperability Forum held in the 'Indian Treaty Room' of the Eisenhower Executive Office, adjacent to the White House in Washington DC.

SSTL's Robert Elliott is on his travels this week and delighted to be in Frascati, Italy, for the ESA EO Science Strategy final review workshop in Frascati, Italy. Rob reports that the workshop was ably kicked off by Simonetta Cheli (pictured), Director of ESA EO programmes.

SSTL's Zoë Bowden MCIPS looking justifiably proud of the SSTL set up (and perhaps her T-shirt) at the 'Careers In The Space Industry' event at HSDC Alton College.

Great to see SSTL System Engineer Ted Learmont (third from left) championing the Space industry at the 'Window on the World of Work Conference' organised by the Worshipful Company of World Traders, held at Birkbeck, University of London

Great to see our HydroGNSS ESA Scout satellite coming off the shaker after a successful vibration test.. pictured here with SSTL's David Stirling, James Williams and Duncan O'Leary.

Great to welcome Neumann Space top chaps Martin Mostert and Harrison Price to SSTL this week.. who came bearing hardware (the Neumann Thruster).. which will fly on our CarbSAR satellite next year.

SSTL's Andrew Cawthorne & Clive Oates pictured at the Space Symposium, Colorado Springs, with a 1/3 scale model of the Firefly Lander which will travel with our Lunar Pathfinder satellite to the moon in 2025.

Great to welcome the BBC's Simon Furber & Ken Bare of Visit Surrey down to SSTL today.. recording a segment for Surrey Day (11th May) & BBC Sounds with SSTL's Project Director Sophie Bywater

Great to welcome ESA's Director of Navigation Javier Benedicto down to Guildford today.. pictured below with SSTL's Andrew Haslehurst & Nelly Phillips.. (and our Lunar Pathfinder satellite.)

SSTL’s Christopher Youens and Joe Edwards were delighted to recently venture Far East, visiting esteemed space propulsion specialists IHI Aerospace for very productive meetings.

SSTL and the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) held their first Co-creation workshop last week at Space Park Leicester. The work involves the design of a new generation of low-cost satellite constellations of sensors that can help to fill data gaps

SSTL were delighted to send a fine touring party to the Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation (CEOI) in Oxfordshire for their recent Emerging Technologies Workshop

Check out this behind the scenes clip of Michael Portillo filming the Great Railway Journeys segment here at SSTL. Episode on BBC iPlayer now!

Great to welcome Ismael López & Luigi Strippoli to SSTL HQ today.. pictured below next to their Deimos-1 satellite mission marker on our corridor of launches.. (with SSTL's Andrew Haslehurst & Richard Hansen)

We were delighted to welcome Michael Portillo and the Great Railway Journeys team down here to SSTL last year.. and are really looking forward to seeing the episode on BBC2 at 6:30pm on Thursday 21st March!

Mark Garnier OBE MP, vice chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Space, on the SSTL stand at Space-Comm Expo with Prof. Sir Martin Sweeting & Andrew Cawthorne

It's a busy second day on the SSTL stand at Space-Comm Expo in Farnborough. SSTL's Prof. Sir Martin Sweeting & Andrew Cawthorne seen here with Luke Pollard MP, Shadow Armed Forces Minister.

SSTL's Emma Turnbull and colleagues will be at Farnborough this week - just down the road from our Guildford HQ - for Space-Comm Expo. Make sure to stop and say Hello if you're passing.

Check out this cool video of SSTL's Fergus Glen and Cameron Hodge - looking encouragingly satisfied - with the trial solar array deployment on the Satellite Risk Reduction Model for our Lunar Pathfinder Mission