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Saxavord, the Shetlands spaceport, is highlighting its role for future sovereign space launches. At the SpaceComm expo in London, the spaceport and the German company Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) announced they will be supporting the launch of intelligence monitoring and gathering satellites as well as commercial satellites into orbit. In other words, governmental launches for defence and information gathering. The ...
This year’s satellite comms-related SIG Awards have been announced – at SATShow ’25 in Washington D.C. – by the Satcoms Innovation Group (SIG). The awards celebrate outstanding and innovative technologies, as well as exceptional contributions, within the satcom sector. Innovation of the Year Winner of the Innovation of the Year award was Mission Microwave Technologies. This was for its one-kilowatt ...
The UK Space Agency (UKSA) is boasting a record eighteen-months for contract wins involving the European Space Agency (ESA). The agency highlights a significant increase for the funds in-flow involving ESA programmes. An additional £112 million (€134 million) in contracts for the UK space sector between June 2022 and December 2024 from what was expected. Also, the British space sector ...
Gilmour Space Technologies has cleared the last regulatory hurdle before an Australian launch, receiving final airspace approvals from the country’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) and Airservices Australia. The Australian launch services company has announced a launch window starting ‘no earlier than’ March 15. This is for the maiden flight of Eris, the first Australian-designed and built rocket aiming for ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) LightShip initiative is studying the possibilities for a propulsive tug, or “interplanetary transfer service”. Additionally, four consortia will define what a small, low-cost Mars satellite-platform could look like as a “LightShip” passenger, i.e. the spacecraft platforms that could be delivered to Mars by the LightShip. They are led by Argotec, Deimos Space, Politecnico di Milano ...
The UK Space Agency has awarded a contract worth £1.8 million to SatixFy to develop a software suite for digital satellite payloads. The funding was awarded by the agency under its C-LEO (Connectivity in Low-Earth Orbit) programme. SatixFy SatixFy, the Israel-headquartered satellite comms specialist, is addressing demand for software-reconfigurable satellite payloads. It is developing advanced regenerative and digital beamforming software. ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) is funding £10 million for new facilities at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (ATC), the research institute in Edinburgh. Specifically, new lab spaces will be built to assemble optical benches. These are for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, investigating gravitational waves in space. The investment will approximately double UK ATC’s construction capabilities. Optical ...
TE Connectivity’s MultiGig HD connector has been selected by the VITA Standards Organization as the next-generation VPX plug-in module connector. Senior project manager, Mark Walmsley, revealed the VITA 100.30 connector plug-in module at Embedded Tech Trends. The modules features powerblades and stripline (four layer) wafers to optimise isolation. The wafers are thicker than those used for VPX and have key ...
Open Cosmos and i2CAT have announced the launch of Europe’s first Low Earth Orbit (LEO) lab for R&D in non-terrestrial networks (NTN), The mission involves the 6GStarLab, a satellite designed to experimentally validate new communication technologies in space, contributing to the standardisation of NTN, which is crucial for advanced 5G evolution and future 6G. The 6GStarLab (pictured) will enable i2CAT ...
Infineon is introducing a radiation-tolerant p-channel plastic-packged power mosfet for low-earth-orbit (LEO) space applications “with radiation performance suitable for missions lasting two to five years”, it said. It is a 60V p-channel mosfet, and joins four n-channel space devices for 60V or 150V use in either TO247 or D2PAK plastic packaging. The p-channel, called BUP06CP038F-01, comes in DPAK (TO252) form ...
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