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January 20, 2014

First mission for SSTL's new X50 platform will be for Kazakh customer
London, UK (SPX) Jan 20, 2014
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) and Ghalam LLP (Kazakhstan) have agreed that SSTL's new X50 platform design will deliver KazSTSAT, a small satellite mission announced under a contract signed last year. KazSTSAT will be based on the SSTL-X50 Earthmapper variant and will carry an SSTL SLIM-6 imager, providing 22m resolution multispectral imagery with a swath width of more than 600km for global wide-area imaging. The new SSTL-X50 Earthmapper variant combines a large volume of data storag ... read more

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