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U.K.-based Surrey Satellite Technology is no stranger to delivering small satellite missions, in fact, since the company’s birth in 1981, it has already launched 41 of such spacecraft.

Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company, successfully completed its crowd funding campaign yesterday to launch ARKYD in 2015

A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying three GLONASS Russian government navigation satellites exploded Tuesday morning only moments after being launched

ISRO launched India's first navigation satellite. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV C22) took off at 11:41 p.m. from the Satish Dawan Space Centre in Sriharikota

The U.S. Air Force has taken delivery of the third Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) satellite payload as part of its Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) program

UTC Aerospace Systems announced that the ORS 1 satellite has celebrated its second anniversary in space. ORS 1, the first Operationally Responsive Space satellite specifically designed to support combatant command operations was launched from Wallops Island Flight Facility aboard a Minotaur 1 launch vehicle on June 29, 2011

Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) and Ghalam LLP signed a contract for the collaborative design and development of the Kazak Science and Technology satellite system

Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) and Ghalam LLP signed a contract for the collaborative design and development of the Kazak Science and Technology satellite system

As global climate change continues to spark international concern, satellite technology is providing experts with additional tools to better analyze and combat its effects.

Software designed for processing satellite pictures is now helping medical researchers to establish a simple method for wide-scale screening for Alzheimer’s disease.