{"id":792558,"date":"2026-10-05T10:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792558\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T10:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:14:09","slug":"guildfords-role-in-space-industry-celebrated-in-world-space-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792558\/","title":{"rendered":"Guildford’s role in space industry celebrated in World Space Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

A town in Surrey will be holding events to mark the county’s role in the space and satellite industry.<\/p>\n

The University of Surrey has its own space centre<\/a>, one of the leading facilities in the UK.<\/p>\n

The department led to the creation of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) in Guildford.<\/p>\n

To mark World Space Week the town’s high street will feature demonstrations and displays on 10 October.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Barry is a senior systems engineer at SSTL, which is currently working on seven spacecraft for missions ranging from defence and climate monitoring to the world’s first commercial lunar communications service.<\/p>\n

“Space has become so important to everyone’s lives nowadays,” she told BBC Radio Surrey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“You might think about it when you open your weather app on your phone and say ‘I can look seven days into the future’, that’s because of space.”<\/p>\n

“Space underpins so many different technologies that we all use, if you’re using internet banking, you can’t do that without space.<\/p>\n

“Things like CT scanners, MRI machines, all of those came from space technologies.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A town in Surrey will be holding events to mark the county’s role in the space and satellite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-792558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792558","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=792558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}