"Big future for small satellites"

Appleton lecture by Sir Martin Sweeting.  

6pm on Tuesday 19 January at IET London: Savoy Place.

Professor Sir Martin Sweeting, a world-renowned expert on satellites, will deliver the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Appleton Lecture 2010.

Sir Martin, who is Director of the Surrey Space Centre and Executive Chairman of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), will be giving his talk on small satellites. His visionary leadership, satellite expertise, ambition and drive has brought the overheads involved in space exploration, down to earth.

Since the early 1980s SSTL has pioneered the development of small satellites, commonly named ‘microsatellites’ .　 SSTL has designed, built and launched over 30 of these microsatellites and, through this work, SSTL is ‘changing the economics of space’.

Born in 1951 in London, Sir Martin has pioneered the concept of advanced microsatellites utilising modern commercial off-the-shelf devices to change the economics of space. After completing BSc and PhD degrees in Electronic Engineering at the University of Surrey, in 1985 he formed a spin-off university company SSTL which has designed, built, launched and operates in orbit a total of 32 nano, micro, and mini-satellites.

In 1995 Sir Martin was awarded the OBE and in 2002 was knighted by HM Queen in recognition of his pioneering work in small satellites. In 2006, he was appointed a Distinguished Professor at the University of Surrey, listed as one of the ‘ Top 10 Great Britons ’ and, most recently, awarded the Royal Institute of Navigation Gold Medal in recognition of the successful GIOVE-A mission for the European Galileo system. In 2009, he was awarded the IET ’ s most prestigious award - the Faraday Medal.

The free-to-attend Appleton Lecture will take place at 6pm on Tuesday 19 January at IET London: Savoy Place. For more information, visit www.theiet.org/appleton

The above is based on IET press release 12 Jan 2010.

About the IET: The IET is a world leading professional organisation, sharing and advancing knowledge to promote science, engineering and technology across the world.  The IET dates from 1871 and has 150,000 members in 127 countries with offices in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.  For more information, visit www.theiet.org

For more information about the Appleton lecture, visit http://conferences.theiet.org/lectures/appleton/history.htm

Useful link:

IET satellite communications summer school: Satellite Communications summer school

► Page created  13 Jan 2010 Eric Johnston

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