[Satellite TODAY 01-20-10] Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) is restructuring its business and splitting into two separate business units, the company announced Jan. 20.
    SSTL will now have a telecommunications and navigation business unit, as well as an Earth observation and science business unit.
    The telecommunications and navigation business unit will be run by John Paffett, who was responsible for Europe’s first Galileo navigation satellite, Giove-A and SSTL’s geostationary communications satellite program. The Earth observation and science business unit will be run by Paul Brooks, SSTL’s director of business development and sales and previously responsible for the medium wave infrared and TopSat remote sensing missions.
    “The formation of two focused business units will enable SSTL to grow, whilst preserving this ethos and maintaining our unique and cost effective methodology which is built on a common foundation of engineering and a programmatic approach,” SSTL CEO Matt Perkins said in a statement.
    SSTL is involved in a remote sensing mission for Kazakhstan and the launch of the NigeriaSat-2 and NX satellites later this year.

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