Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) has received a grant to begin the design phase of a UK technology demonstration satellite, TechDemoSat-1.
SSTL, and UK industry and academia will fund the novel payload technologies and the grant will enable the final payload selection process to be completed.
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UK organisations currently experience huge cost barriers and find it very time consuming to obtain a first flight demonstration for new equipment and technologies in space.
Through the grant, the Technology Strategy Board and the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) aim to provide an in-orbit test bed for UK technology.
TechDemoSat-1 will be the first collaborative UK satellite launched since the establishment of the UK Space Agency and will demonstrate the advanced capabilities of small satellite technology.
The satellite will carry a number of UK payloads for applications such as monitoring maritime environment and shipping, and man’s impact on the planet, and providing in-situ measurements of a wide range of space radiation from low-energy plasmas to high-energy cosmic ray particles.
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By GlobalDataPayload partners are expected to include ComDEV Europe, SSTL, Selex Galileo, QinetiQ, Aero Sekur, RAL Space and Oxford University.
