Very nice to host a visiting party from the University of Surrey Astro Group today.. pictured below with SSTL's Steve Eckersley and Nicolò Bernardini.

With the Farnborough International Airshow hashtag#FIA2024 being on our doorstep we are also able to host meetings and site visits at SSTL HQ, as pictured here with colleagues from Hanwha, UK Gov and Space South Central

Very nice to see SSTL Chairman and Founder Prof. Sir Martin Sweeting in fine oratorical form delivering the prestigious David W. Thompson Space Commerce Lecture at the Ascend Conference in Las Vegas organised by the AIAA.

Very nice to see SSTL's Head of Events Emma Turnbull and the SSTL exhibition booth looking as welcoming as always at this years Small Satellite Conference conference in Logan, Utah.

Always good to see SSTL's Alex da Silva Curiel in action in the presenters circle (or square.. this case) delivering words of wisdom during the 'Exploring Technology Enablers for Cislunar Missions' at the Small Satellite Conference Conference in Logan, Utah.

This was SSTL's Alex da Silva Curiel at last years Small Satellite Conference.. if you want to see if he has raised his (already exemplary) game then get down to booth#55 in Taggart at 11:15 today to see him present about thermal imaging.

SSTL's Alex da Silva Curiel presenting on Infra-Red satellite capability to the masses at the Small Satellite Conference Conference in Logan, Utah.

Are you suitably caffeinated at todays Small Satellite Conference Conference in Logan, Utah? If not.. head over to the SSTL sponsored coffee break.

Are you suitably caffeinated at todays Small Satellite Conference (SmallSat) in Logan, Utah? If not.. head over to the SSTL sponsored coffee break.

Fantastic to hear from SpaceX that Transporter-11 should launch this evening at approx 7:20pm UK time! She is carrying precious cargo.. and most precious to us is UK Space Command's Tyche satellite.. which can be seen on the far left near the bottom of this very cool pic.

SSTL's Steve Eckersley, Robert Elliott & William Hill (and summer interns Lincoln Grasby & Henry Philp) were delighted to catch up with Surrey Space Centre Surrey Space Centre colleagues yesterday.. as well as visit their impressive Electric Propulsion test facility.

What goes into commissioning a satellite? This is a complex.. and is being outlined here to UK Space Command personnel by SSTL's Chris Youens, watched on by experienced hands Sir Martin Sweeting & Andrew Cawthorne. (Day 3 snapshot of Tyche commissioning.. all well so far.)

Very nice to welcome Peter Schultz of partners Neumann Space down to Guildford today to see progress of the integration of their Thruster into our CarbSAR satellite.

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Always nice to welcome overseas-based colleagues who take the chance to call in when visiting the old country. Michael Madden of Airbus US Space & Defense, Inc. pictured here with SSTL's Andrew Haslehurst

Suited, booted and masked for action in our Optical Payloads Clean Room.. SSTL's Hamilton Law is working here on the HotSat-2 Imager build.

Check out SSTL's Kai Berry & Cameron Hodge prepping the 1st SSTL-built #HydoGNSS spacecraft for shipping to the external TVAC test facilities where it will embark on the test campaign under vacuum across the thermal extremes it will see in space.

Very nice to see our Philippine Space Agency colleagues Gabriel Kevin Mabini & Edgar Paolo Violan receive their topology designed X-Band High Gain Antenna brackets from Victoria May of Prototal | UK. These will be flown on PHILSA's MULA satellite, in build here in Guildford.

Great to see SSTL's Robert Elliott & Stephanie Mottershead set up for business at the National Earth Observation Conference this week at the National Stem Centre in York.

SSTL's Ben Stern and panel colleagues on the 'EO Satellites for the next decades: the future is bright?' session at the National EO Conference in York. Their smiles here suggest that Yes, it most certainly is.