Times HE Supplement Award
SSTL has been short listed by the Times Higher Awards 2006 for its “Outstanding Contribution to Innovation and Technology”, an extremely competitive category in the awards.
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) was a spin-off company from the department of electronic
engineering at the University of Surrey to develop satellite technology. The award considered the successful technology transfer from academic research and the role of the SSTL-run Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) in the support for relief missions after disasters such as the Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.
The award short list also recognised the commercial success of SSTL, which has generated a turnover of £118 million and specialises in the construction of low-cost satellites and services using commercial off-the-shelf technology.
The short list, published today, also recognized SSTL’s achievements in TopSat, a high resolution imaging satellite built for the UK Government, and GIOVE-A, the first demonstrator for the planned European Galileo positioning system which were both successfully launched in 2005.
Times Higher Education Supplement
