Perfect location' Patrick Wood, head of Lockheed Martin Space UK, said: "As the UK launches into the next space age, the Shetland Space Centre is the perfect location for vital ground stations as ...

Credit: Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. The UK Defense Ministry has awarded a contract to Airbus’s Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) for an Earth-observation satellite as the country ...

Britain also supplied the radiometer, from Thales Alenia Space UK, and the imager, from Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. GMV-UK has prepared the ground systems that will process all the data.