# Surrey Satellite Technology

> <p><strong>Ownership:</strong> Wholly owned by Airbus Defence and Space since 2014. Guildford (UK) since 1985 (spun out of University of Surrey).<br><strong>Employees:</strong> ~500<br><strong>Key products:</strong> Small Earth-observation satellites; navigation satellites (including Galileo system components); cubesat platforms<br><strong>Key markets:</strong> ESA, UK military, commercial Earth-observation, government Earth-observation customers globally<br><strong>Known for:</strong> The British small-satellite pioneer. Surrey Satellite essentially invented the modern small-Earth-observation-satellite category in the 1980s and trained much of the European small-sat workforce. Airbus-owned since 2014; engineering remains in Guildford.<br><a href="https://www.sstl.co.uk">https://www.sstl.co.uk</a></p>

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