Reaching for the Stars Surrey Satellite (SSTL)

Maggie Aderin-Pocock darts through a maze of dark corridors of the high-security satellite works at the space firm Astrium in Stevenage, U.K. A locked door opens into a vast, bright room, where the bones of a satellite hang overhead: a gigantic metallic cube packed with wires and electronics. "This is Aeolus," she beams. The satellite is designed to monitor wind speed in Earth's atmosphere, and