The Singapore Space and Technology Association (SSTA) focuses on developing Singapore's space and related high technology industries. It serves as a platform to facilitate communication between industry, government, and academia. SSTA spearheads initiatives to advance Singapore's space ecosystem, and drives educational programs to encourage careers in space and engineering. Singapore has invested in satellite missions and university programs since 2011, launching 13 satellites. SSTA partners with industry and universities to support talent development, innovation challenges, and startups in the space sector.

1. Singapore Space and
Technology Association

2. About SSTA
Singapore Space and Technology Association (SSTA)
focuses on developing Singapore’s space and related
high technology industries.
Serves as a neutral platform to facilitate information
and communication for industry, government and
academia.
Spearheads initiatives that advances Singapore’s
space ecosystem.
Drives educational and outreach programmes to
encourage careers in space and high-technology
engineering fields

3. Singapore’s Journey into Space
Singapore has invested in satellite missions and other
university programmes to build space expertise and talent
2014
2014
2013
2011
XSAT
First
Singapore
made
satellite
VELOX-PII
First
Singapore
student-
built
satellite
POPSAT-
HIP 1
3U
Cube-
sat
VELOX-I
VELOX-C1
Tropical environmental
monitoring satellite
Kent-Ridge 1
Hyperspectral imaging
satellite
Galassia
Collaboration with NUS
Centre for Quantum
Technologies
VELOX-II
NTU collaboration with
Addvalue - IDRS
Athenoxat-1
Experimental satellite for imaging
NTU
collaboration
with KIT
2015
TeLEOS-1
Singapore’s first
commercial EO satellite
2017
AOBA VELOX-III
VELOX-PIII
Developed
by Under-
graduate
Satellite
Program
Aerospace System
Initiative for
Design-Centric
Programme
Undergrad Satellite
Programme
NTU project to collect
images of lunar landscape
2019
AOBA VELOX-IV 1
SpooQy-1
Demonstrates quantum
entanglement
13Satellites built and
Launched since 2011
Dedicated
University
Programmes

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Singapore’s Space
Ecosystem

5. Some of our partners…

6. Industry Programmes

7. Asia's Premier Space & Technology Event created since 2008
GSTC is a C-suite convention attended by ministers, leaders of
government agencies and key industry players. A neutral and
conducive platform for dialogues on partnerships and commercial
discussions between businesses, government agencies, as well as
research institutes within the space industry
5 - 7
Feb
2020
• Maritime and Aviation Satellite Services
• 5G in the Satellite Era
• Balancing Cyber-security with Business
Needs of Commercial Space
• High Speed Protected Communication
Links on Future Space Systems
GSTC 2020
• Security, Data, and Communications in
the Age of Newspace
• Space Applications for Smart Cities
• The Digital Transformation of Air Traffic
Management and Space Based
Technology
GUEST OF HONOUR
Mr TEO Chee Hean, Senior
Minister and Coordinating Minister
for National Security
Almost 900 delegates
More than 350 companies
Over 60 speakers
A growing focus on communications!

8. GSTC 2020:
Supporting Partners and Co-located Events
Industry Government Agencies
Institutes and Organisations
Co-located Events
UK Singapore Grand Challenge Workshop 2020
Secure World Foundation
Workshop 2020
Blockchain
Workshop 2020
Multi-GNSS Asia Regional Symposium 2020
Satellite QKD – The Future of Secure Communications
Workshop 2020
Singapore Space
Challenge 2020
Pitching Session
HADR Challenge
2020 Showcase
and Pitching Session

9. GSTC 2020 Statistics
OVER 900
DELEGATES
FIFTY
COUNTRIES CO-LOCATED
E V E N T S7
40%
C-SUITE
MORE
THAN
LEADING
ORGANISATIONS
REPRESENTED
50

10. R&D
Talent Development
& Outreach

11. Overview
▪ An annual design competition that challenges student teams (ages between
15 – 25 years old) to design and develop realistic Space-related projects.
▪ To promote technical and industrial research in Science and Technology and at
the same time, challenge the thinking processes and creativity of students.
▪ Strong participation from both local and foreign institutions with the
number of teams growing steadily year on year.
Activities
• Industry Visits to ST Engineering
• STK Workshops
• Meet experts such as Ms. Simonetta di
Pippo, Director of UNOOSA
• Mentor Sessions
SSC 2020
Topic: Space Debris
Challenge Statement:
Design a satellite concept of not more
than 5 satellites (Servicer) that can be
used to deorbit space debris.
Singapore Space
Challenge 2020
11

12. ▪ SSTA collaborates with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
(JAXA) to offer an educational programme known as Try Zero-G Asia
to students and young researchers to design space experiments.
▪ Students from Secondary Schools, Junior Colleges, Institute of
Technical Education and Tertiary Institutions are invited to submit
proposals for micro-gravity experiments.
▪ Selected proposals will have their experiments conducted onboard the
KIBO* by a JAXA astronaut, which will be broadcasted live and
transmitted to JAXA’s ground station, Tsukuba Space Center in Japan.
Aircraft Stability
Paper Boomerang
The Flying Paper Plane
Gyroscope and Tippe Top
Nanyang Polytechnic and Naval
Base Secondary School
NUS High School
NUS High School
Hillgrove Secondary School
Past Selected Proposals
Try Zero-G Asia

13. Innovation
Initiatives

14. Develop an AI empowered application that can
assist response teams in efficiently analysing
satellite images of areas affected by typhoons.
Supporting Partners
Regional HADR
Coordination Center
Singapore Civil
Defence Force
Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief
HADR Challenge
Minister S. Iswaran with the HADR
2018 winning team, along with
their RHCC and SCDF mentors
Minister Chan Chun Sing
with the HADR 2019
winning team at GSTC 2019
Mission Statement 2020
Asia is regularly hit by typhoons (also known as
hurricanes or tropical cyclones) during the
monsoon season. These storms often result in
flooding, deaths and the destruction of homes,
roads, and other basic infrastructure. This year,
participants are challenged to:

15. Advanced Space Incubator
Start-up Transcelestial Technologies with
SSTA President Jonathan Hung, SM Teo Chee Hean,
and DPM & Minister for Finance Heng Swee Keat
To spur and cultivate innovation in the space tech startup ecosystem
Access to subject matter experts
Marketing B-B platform
Technical consultancy on products
Bridging funds across Asia and US
Regional domain expertise
Smart manufacturing solutions
Sketch-to-Scale support
Made-in-Singapore branding & quality Start-up pitching at GSTC 2019

16. BAD
BIKERS
Leveraging GNSS Technology to
Innovate
Solving Urban Mobility Challenges
Developing Partnerships with
Applications that utilise optical and SAR
satellite imagery for mapping data
analytics and geolocation services
GeoWorks Incubatees
Geospatial Technology in BIM Systems
Reliable Mapping Solutions
for Autonomous Vehicles

17. Astronomy Advancements
Interest in astronomy contributes significantly to the development of other sciences, like maths and physics,
within the classroom and also of the new space industry. It promotes inquisitive thinking and scientific
questioning. There are about eight observatories and more than 30 astronomy societies and clubs in
Singapore (schools and public).
• Singapore Astronomy Olympiad (SAO) is modelled after the International
Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA), which Singapore has
participated in since 2007. aims to promote an interest in astronomy and
astrophysics, in particular recent developments in these fields.
• Astronomy Programmes at the Science Centre Singapore’s Observatory
includes a tour and an introductory talk. Topics include birth and death of stars,
constellations, space junk, anatomy of a telescope and more.
• Cosmocraft Astronomy Trips are organised every month where fellow
astronomy enthusiasts travel on an overseas stargazing trip to Malaysia.
• Astronomy (Mersing) Expeditions are conducted monthly to Malaysia by
renowned local astrographer where he teaches astrophotography.

18. Singapore plans to roll out four commercial 5G networks in 2020, and
by the end of 2022, expects to have at least 50% of the city-state
covered with a standalone network.
5G provides the ultimate opportunity for the satellite industry to break
out of its niche and for satellite service providers to offer a much wider
range of services. Mobile network operators will be able to
complement their 5G services with satellite connectivity to offload their
terrestrial networks in a large scale.
Delivering global internet connectivity from space will ultimately prove
more effective than the current method of deep sea cables and fibre-
optic cabling.
Laser communication satellites that take a leaf from CubeSats is a
potential starting point towards an extended space-based comms
gateway.
A network that will be able to connect any two points on the planet
would require scaling up to a constellation of 150-200 satellites in low-
Earth orbit.
5G in Singapore –
Towards a Lunar Network

19. Lunar Communications
By 2030, a Singapore spacetech company,
Transcelestial, which uses wireless lasers that
can carry hundreds of gigabits to terabits per
second of data, may drop a 1 terabyte link down
to the Moon.
"There're more and more mining activities and
lunar activities that are being planned... So our
aim is to actually start offering things like 4G-
services-equivalent on the moon itself, for all of
these future missions."
NTU’s latest satellite, AOBA-
VELOX-IV, a collaboration
with the Kyushu Institute of
Technology, was also
launched earlier this year to
demonstrate propulsion and
low light camera capabilities
for small satellites to carry
out future lunar missions
ILOA Southeast Asia Benefactor’s
Reception @ GSTC 2019 –
Singapore

20. Thank you