Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. has been awarded a development contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to continue work on a geostationary small satellite platform, the company announced Jan. 31.

Under the contract, valued at 2.3 million British pounds ($4.5 million), Surrey will extend its work on the Geostationary Minisatellite Platform.

Surrey began work on this program under the British National Space Center’s Micro-Satellite Application in Collaboration (MOSAIC) program. Under MOSAIC, Surrey developed ESA’s Giove-A satellite for the Galileo program, which was placed into orbit in December 2005 in order to test signals for Europe’s planned satellite navigation system.