NASA boosts SmallSats via Launch Services Program

NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) has awarded three contracts to launch small satellites (SmallSats) to space, including CubeSats, microsats or nanosatellites. The three US companies selected to provide the commercial launches are Astra Space, Relativity Space and Firefly Black LLC. And the value of their fixed-price contracts, $3.9m, $3.0m and $9.8m, respectively Miniature satellites help ...

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Qualcomm upgrades mobile platform

Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 678 Mobile Platform – an upgrade to the 675. 678 offers the following performance enhancements over Snapdragon 675: · Qualcom Kryo 460 CPU core clock speed up to 2.2GHz · Qualcomm Adreno 612 GPU performance increase Qualcomm Spectra 250L ISP powers the camera features on the Snapdragon 678. Users can ...

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EDT develops replacement modules for Mitsubishi TFT LCD modules

Manhattan Skyline has announced that Emerging Display Technologies (EDT) will release TFT LCDs to replace those discontinued by Mitsubishi Electric. The Japanese company announced in June 2020 that it will no longer produce small and medium sized TFT LCD modules, used for industrial and automotive applications.   Taiwanese manufacturer, EDT, has grown from a monochrome ...

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UK to legislate against harmful online content

The government intends to pass an Online Safety Bill next year to protect people in the UK from harmful content posted on sites accessible in the UK from whatever countries they are hosted. Firms failing to protect people face fines of up to ten per cent of turnover or the blocking of their sites and ...

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Synaptics is lead investor in Eta Compute’s Series C

Eta Compute, the intelligent sensing specialist, has closed its Series C funding of $12.5 million, bringing the company’s total funds raised to $31.5 million. The round was led by Synaptics with participation from other existing investors. “We look forward to collaborating with Synaptics to address the massive multi-billion dollar opportunity in Edge AI,” said Ted Tewksbury, ...

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UK government backs 3D mapping Comet Interceptor probe

Thales Alenia Space have won the contract to design the mother ship for the Comet Interceptor mission, which will see one main spacecraft and two smaller robotic probes travel to an as-yet unidentified comet, and map it in three dimensions. The smaller probes (30cm in length) will be built by the Japanese Space Agency. For ...

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Power supply for demanding applications

Advanced Energy Industries of Denver, Colorado, has introduced its new Excelsys CoolX3000 modular, configurable power platform designed medical and industrial applications. Optimised for use in medical diagnostics, imaging and treatment equipment, life science systems, clinical chemistry as well as specialized industrial equipment, the CoolX3000 rounds out AE’s CoolX family of configurable power supplies, which includes the CX600, ...

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Cathode deals with polysulphde shuttle in Li-S battery

Lithium sulphur cells can retain >95% Coulomb efficiency for 80 charge cycles at >300Wh/kg, according to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which is working on a novel cathode design. The electrochemistry of lithium paired with sulphur (a low-cost material) make the combination desirable for lightweight high capacity batteries, but the elements, so far, ...

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