Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) will be collaborating further with both Collins Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney on commercial aerospace technology research following the signing of a new agreement. The new master research agreement (MRA) will enable “bilateral collaboration across a range of sustainable aviation research opportunities, including advanced materials, hydrogen propulsion, advanced manufacturing and industrial design” says the ...
CSEM, the Swiss technology innovation centre is part of a consortium which is developing an AI-equipped drone to identify invasive and potentially damaging plants. Buddleia, or butterfly bushes, and Japanese knotweed can replace native plant species and others like narrow-leaved ragwort are poisonous. They can cause damage to the infrastructure, damaging railway tracks and signal installations or reduce sight lines. ...
Ramon.Space has been selected for a UK Space Agency-backed programme to develop its NuComm onboard processor, designed for large-scale communication satellite constellations. The project is looking to innovate around onboard digital payloads. The company’s radiation-hardened processor will be used to deliver high-capacity, low-power programmable digital communication systems. NuComm According to the company, the modular, software-defined nature of the platform means ...
A new report by space consultancy firm Novaspace estimates the size of the satellite market by 2033, including a launch forecast for the next decade. According to its latest ‘Satellites to be Built & Launched‘, satellite demand is expected to reach an annual average of 3,700 units between 2024 and 2033, with growth primarily fueled by NGSO (non-geostationary orbit) constellations. ...
U-blox has created an all-band all-constellation precision GNSS receiver, a successor to its F9 IC with L6 reception and global precision coverage. X20, as it will be known, “addresses the current high-precision GNSS needs around the world, and its design is equipped to also handle new and emerging technologies and standards”, according to the company. “The platform is designed for ...
Students at the universities of Surrey, Portsmouth and Southampton will have the opportunity to design and launch a satellite mission, thanks to a new programme. The three universities are partners of the Space South Central regional space cluster, which is backed by the UK Space Agency. And their initiative is dubbed JUPITER – the Joint Universities Programme for In-Orbit Training, ...
Airbus will be providing Sparkwing solar arrays to power the the software-defined satellites used in Telesat’s Lightspeed LEO satellite constellation. Sparkwing Specifically, Airbus will be supply its Sparkwing arrays to the Canadian company MDA Space for the MDA AURORA product line. It has announced 200 such arrays will be built on a designated line at Airbus’ production facility in Leiden, ...
The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has selected ten Earth observation companies to compete for orders as part of its Luno A programme. It will be acquiring “unclassified commercial GEOINT-derived computer vision and analytic service capabilities,” said the agency. The contract – a five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) agreement – has a maximum value of $290 million. Luna A ...
Capella Space is celebrating a $15 million contract award from the U.S. Air Force for the use of its synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology. It is an AFWERX Ventures Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) award. AFWERX is part of the U.S. Department of the Air Force (DAF) and works with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). It is described as an ...
Vision technology developed by Unistellar for its smart telescope, brings clarity to space watching. Vivid Vision signal processing technology improves two signal processing to enhance the detection of galaxies, nebulae and star clusters. At IFA Berlin, the company announced that the smart telescope decoded the colours of around 300,000 stars in the Hercules cluster and revealed the chemical composition of ...
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