New government funding helps UK companies lead the way for future Moon missions
UK companies are developing new communication and navigation services needed for future missions to the Moon, thanks to funding from the UK Space Agency
From: Credit: ESA
In what will be the world’s first commercial servicing of its kind, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), Inmarsat and MDA UK are among those who won contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA), worth just over £2 million in total, to shape the infrastructure for future lunar exploration.
NASA plans to return to the Moon by 2024 and, working with ESA and other partners, intends to put a Gateway with living quarters for astronauts in lunar orbit. Reliable navigation and telecommunication capabilities are essential for these missions, and others like it, to succeed.
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New government funding helps UK companies lead way for future Moon missions
In what will be the world’s first commercial servicing of its kind, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), Inmarsat and MDA UK are among those who won contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA), worth just over £2 million in total, to shape the infrastructure for future lunar exploration.
NASA plans to return to the Moon by 2024 and, working with ESA and other partners, intends to put a Gateway with living quarters for astronauts in lunar orbit. Reliable navigation and telecommunication capabilities are essential for these missions, and others like it, to succeed.
LatConnect 60 plans to provide cost effective high resolution satellite imagery and RF signal intelligence data. Photo: LatConnect 60
The first partnership has been announced under the United Kingdom-Australia Space Bridge, a program launched earlier this year by the
Australian Space Agency and
LatConnect 60 and
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) are the two companies to partner. The partnership was announced May 13.
Under the partnership, Perth-based LatConnect 60 will provide high resolution optical data from the SSTL S1-4 Earth Observation (EO) satellite, bolstering the firm’s satellite imagery and data analytics capability in Australia.
Through the new satellite, LatConnect 60 will generate high resolution panchromatic and multispectral optical data which its team in Western Australia will further process to provide analytics-ready data products and insights. The companies said that clients from sectors ranging from mining, agriculture and government will benefit
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