INTERVIEW
Having achieved a PhD in Electronic Engineering and Communications, SIR MARTIN SWEETING led a University of Surrey team to build and launch the UK’s first two research micro-satellites. He then formed a spin-out company, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) in 1985, starting with just £100. SSTL now has revenues of more than £100m, employs nearly 500 people and is recognised as the world’s leading small satellite company, with applications ranging from scientific research to communications to disaster monitoring. Knighted in 2002, Sir Martin is Fellow of the Royal Academy of
Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Society, has received the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal, the Royal Society Mullard Prize, the Institute of Engineering and Technology Faraday Medal, the Royal Institute of Navigation Gold Medal, the Elektra Lifetime Achievement Award by the European Electronics Industry, the Times Higher Education Supplement Award for Innovation, the Arthur C. Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award and featured as one of the UK’s ‘Top Ten Great Britons’. In March 2012, he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Design, presented by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, and is a member of the UK Space Leadership Council. He is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the National Space
Centre, Leicester. He talked to Deputy Editor Andy Hibberd.
22 business network June 2016
Sir Martin Sweeting, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the National Space Centre
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