Surrey Satellite To Build Satellites For Nigeria

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) has signed a contract with the Nigerian government for the development and launch of its first satellite within the next two years. NigeriaSat 1 is to be an 80 kg class microsatellite to be developed as part of SSTL's Disaster Monitoring Constellation which will include four other satellites provided by Great-Britain and Algeria (AlSat 1) as well as, potentially, China and Thailand. The US$11 million (£7.46 million) contract includes a feasibility study for NigeriaSat 2, a geostationary communication satellite based on the 400 kg class SSTL Minisatellite platform. Total cost of these satellites could amount to US$75 million.

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