Surrey Space Centre
Welcome to the Surrey Space Centre web site, the home of small spacecraft. Surrey Space Centre is a fully integrated mix of world class academic research teams whose aim is to underpin the technical development of the small space industry; and the commercial activities of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) with a global reputation for the design, build and launch of low cost, multi-purpose satellites. Through these pages you will find details of the multidisciplinary research of the academic centre; courses taught within the University; Know-How transfer programmes and details of the achievements of the centre.
News Highlights:
Studentships available at SSC
1st February 2010There are currently two studentships available at the Surrey Space Centre: EPSRC Industrial CASE Studentship with QinetiQ in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Advanced Spaceborne Receivers for New Galileo Navigation Signals.
Prof. Sir Martin Sweeting Receives IET Faraday Medal
2nd December 2009Professor Sir Martin Sweeting has been awarded the Institution of Engineering and Technology's (IET) most prestigious award, the Faraday Medal in recognition of "his visionary leadership, satellite expertise, ambition and drive, which among other things, brought the overheads involved in space exploration, down to earth."
Further details are available in the IET's press release.
SSC Tests Martian Rovers
30th September 2009
Dr. Minh-Tri Pham and Ms. Karin Shala from SSC's Autonomy & AI Research Group recently took part in a test of the Bridget Martian rover prototype in a quarry near to Stevenage, UK. Karin and Minh-Tri were working as part of the EU FP7's PRoVisG project and towards their own PhD and Postdoc research under supervision of Dr. Yang Gao. The quarry was chosen for its similarity to Martian terrain. The field trials were completed successfully with a new set of images that will support the future work in both projects.
SSC Lecturer Invited to Teach at COSPAR Summer School
28th Sept 2009
Dr. Yang Gao of SSC (3rd from right in the photo) was one of the nine invited lecturers at the COSPAR organized summer school on Lunar and Planetary Surface Science in Harbin, China on 6th-19th September 2009. This summer school covers topics on design of instruments for measuring surface and subsurface properties and how to evaluate the data, design of planetary robotic tools with emphasis on lunar applications, various mission design and spacecraft navigation techniques. The program also included workshops to discuss instrument design and data collected from new missions such as Phoenix, Rosetta, Chang’E 1 and Chandrayaan-1. Details about the workshop can be found at http://astro.hit.edu.cn/cospar2009workshop/programme.html
SSC Researcher becomes ESA Astronaut
20th May 2009Dr Andreas Mogensen has been appointed as one of the next intake of European Space Agency (ESA) astronauts. Andreas is currently researching the guidance and control of spacecraft during the terminal descent phase of planetary landings at the Surrey Space Centre. He was one of only six people selected from an initial 8413 applicants. Further details are available on ESA's Human Spaceflight pages.
