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QS RF Locator is Quadsat’s new product to geolocate RF signals to a precise location. The drone-based technology will detect and locate the source of interference, for example, for both commercial and military applications. The Danish company – which uses drones to test and measure satellite antennas in-situ – is using its existing systems for the RF inspection. It says ...
The Orbital Edge Accelerator programme, which helps incubate space startups and is run by the ISS National Lab, is approaching its deadline. Beginning its launch last month, the accelerator is still open but companies only have until 19 May to apply for funding. Orbital Edge Six startups can receive an investment of up to $500,000. Following this there will be ...
ClearSpace is celebrating the completing Phase 2 of CLEAR, the UK Space Agency’s active debris removal (ADR) mission. The mission will demonstrate the feasibility of providing disposal services in space. Basically, offering potential solutions to the technical and operational challenges involved. Phase 2 The London-based company has highlighted a number of technological milestones in Phase 2. The spacecraft’s robotic capture ...
The European Space Agency is celebrating its Proba-3 space mission successfully achieving precise formation flying. The space craft involved are on a journey to investigate the Sun’s corona. The agency highlights that, for the first time, two spacecraft in orbit were aligned in formation with millimetre precision. They maintained their relative position for several hours without any control from the ...
Leonardo UK has formed a partnership with an AI company to develop AI-driven defence capabilities. Expected areas of work include Cognitive Intelligent Sensing (CoInS) and Electronic Warfare. London-based Faculty AI will work with the UK arm of defence and security company. And the collaboration will involve joint product development, to achieve AI-based performance improvements. CoInS CoInS, for example, will use ...
Lockheed Martin has officially completed the assembly and testing of NASA’s Orion Artemis II spacecraft. Orion It means transferring possession of the craft from the company to NASA’s own Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) team. A significant milestone for NASA and the Artemis industry team, they will start to prepare to launch a crew of four astronauts for establishing a human ...
Terran Orbital, a manufacturer of small satellites, has been selected by the U.S. Space Force (USSF) as one of 12 companies awarded a position on the Space Test Experiments Platform (STEP) 2.0 contract. This is a 10-year, $237m IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity) contract. Space Systems Command administers it. And the contract also supports a wider Space Test Program (STP) to ...
Global space exploration investment will reach $31 billion by 2034 estimates a report, Prospects for Space Exploration, by the space consulting and market intelligence firm Novaspace. The report finds that the global government investment in space exploration totaled $27 billion in 2024. And this is projected to grow to nearly $31 billion by 2034. The company believes lunar exploration will ...
The startup OKAPI:Orbits has secured €13 million in seed funding for its AI-based approach to managing space operations, in terms of Space Traffic Management (STM). Specifically, it provides “end-to-end” services for space missions, from the initial mission planning phase to the end-of-life operations. According to the company, it helps predict, detect, and deal with movements in congested space, frequency interference, ...
Eutelsat has appointed Jean-François Fallacher as its new CEO, with the change being effective from the beginning of next month. The appointment was ratified at a company board meeting upon the recommendation of its Nomination and Governance Committee. Jean-François Fallacher Eutelsat described the appointment as a natural change that “fully aligns the company to the telecom ecosystem”. During his at ...
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