Sir Martin says he was encouraged to pursue his original idea when he joined the university as a student in 1970.<\/p>\n
He said: “It was a brand new university. There was no history, there was no baggage.<\/p>\n
“So when I said, ‘I’d like to build a small satellite here’, the staff and the technicians said, ‘why not?'”<\/p>\n
Fast forward to 1981 and SSTL was born.<\/p>\n
The years since have been punctuated by momentous achievements for the pioneering company.<\/p>\n
SSTL’s first satellite, UoSat-1, exceeded its planned lifespan by five years after being built with Nasa’s help.<\/p>\n
The company also built the first Galileo satellite, Europe’s global navigation satellite system which provides accurate and reliable positioning, navigation and timing services.<\/p>\n
As part of its global reach efforts, SSTL has delivered satellites to 22 countries.<\/p>\n
Ms Bywater says the company’s work has allowed “space to become accessible to many, many different countries, and indeed people”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Martin says he was encouraged to pursue his original idea when he joined the university as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-291081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}