Dr. Stuart Eves
Dr Stuart Eves is currently responsible for military business at the world-leading small satellite company, Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) in Guildford. Previously, he spent 16 years with the UK Ministry Of Defence, in various space-related posts, before joining SSTL in January 2004. During his time with the MOD, Stuart initiated the TopSat satellite programme, which is currently conducting its Earth-observation mission. TopSat established a new world record for “resolution per mass of satellite”, and has now been operating on-orbit for more than 3 years. Indeed the mission has been so successful that the engineering model of the satellite now forms part of the recently re-vamped space gallery at the Science Museum in London. Stuart has an MSc in Astrophysics, a PhD in constellation design, and has been a fellow of the UK’s Royal Astronomical Society for more than 15 years. He takes an active interest in all things space, and over the past 18 months has been involved in media stories as diverse as:- William Herschel’s observations of the Rings of Uranus; a space experiment competition for UK schools; the Chinese and US ASAT missile tests; a novel scientific theory involving eclipses and ultrasound; an article on the large-scale structure of the universe; and the possibility of detecting earthquake precursor signals from space.