Exploiting hosted payload opportunities: Surrey's lessons learned from OTB and other missions

In early 2012, Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC (SST-US) published a press release announcing the Orbital Test Bed (OTB) mission [1]. SST-US planned OTB to launch in 2015 to flight test internally developed space technologies and deliberately oversized the platform to accommodate other secondary payloads. The press release was an invitation for external customers, with payloads looking for flight, to register interest and allow SST-US to perform preliminary accommodation feasibility analysis.