Lockheed Martin opens STAR Center manufacturing for Orion spacecraft

Lockheed Martin has officially opened its Spacecraft Test, Assembly and Resource (STAR) Center, an advanced manufacturing facility to expand Orion spacecraft production. The STAR Center, says the company, will expand manufacturing, assembly and testing capacity for NASA’s Orion spacecraft programme and support future space exploration. The 55,000 square-foot space – in Titusville, Florida – will ...

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Mobix Labs buys assets and IP of Cosemi

 Mobix Labs, the RF specialist, has bought the assets and IP of optical connectivity company Cosemi Technologies. Cosemi’s IP and patent portfolio include a range of hybrid active optical cables (AOCs), optical transceivers and optical engines.  “Our combination joins together the disruptive technologies of two pioneering companies into one ultra-low latency solution we are calling True Xero that bridges the ...

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ESA, NASA combine efforts on understanding climate change

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Nasa will be making joint best efforts to help study climate change, they announced after formalising a partnership in this area. They say they will be working together to ensure that data from Earth-observing satellites are used to their best advantage, through the monitoring of the Earth and its ...

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Infineon and IDEX present reference design for biometric smartcards

Infineon and IDEX Biometrics have announced a reference design for biometric smart card architecture. The reference design leverages the combination of Infineon’s  SLC38BML800 security controller with additional GPIO-interfaces and IDEX’s TrustedBio product. The design integrates the fingerprint sensor, the secure element, power management and communications to reduce the complexity of card manufacturing. “This new design ...

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First 3D printed footbridge is filled with sensors

The world’s first 3D-printed footbridge, unveiled today, is a living laboratory – filled with sensors that will be used to train a ‘digital twin’ model. The 12m long bridge was developed by Imperial College and The Alan Turing Institute, built by Dutch company MX3D, and is installed in Amsterdam’s city centre. The whole process took four ...

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Woven Planet buys Carmera

Woven Plant, the automated driving unit of Toyota has bought the spatial AI specialist Carmera. The move follows Woven Planet’s April acquisition of the automated driving subsidiary of Lyft. Carmera will report into Woven Planet’s Automated Mapping Platform (AMP)  which is a software platform that supports the creation, development and distribution of HD maps—a key ...

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Xilinx debuts Versal HBM

Xilinx has introduced the Versal HBM  adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP), the newest series in the Versal  portfolio. The Versal HBM series enables the convergence of fast memory, secure connectivity, and adaptable compute in a single platform. Versal HBM ACAPs integrate the most advanced HBM2e DRAM, providing 820GB/s of throughput and 32GB of capacity for ...

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NAND ASPs Trend Upwards

Contract prices of NAND Flash  will rise marginally for 3Q21, with QoQ increases in the range of 5-10%, reports TrendForce. 128-layer NAND is becoming the mainstream offering. Average contract prices of enterprise SSDs are expected to increase by 15% QoQ. Contract prices of eMMC products are projected to rise by 0-5% as low-density eMMC prices ...

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Skoltech, MIT and Nanyang researchers tweak semiconductor crystals on the fly

Researchers at Skoltech of Russia, MIT and Nanyang Technological University of Singapore have created a neural network that can help tweak semiconductor crystals in a controlled fashion to achieve superior properties for electronics. This enables a new direction of development of next-generation chips and solar cells by exploiting a controllable deformation that may change the properties of a material on ...

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Northrop Grumman finalises contract for NASA Gateway habitation module

Northrop Grumman has finalised its contract with NASA to provide the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) module for NASA’s Gateway, the next-generation replacement for the International Space Station. Under the terms of the $935 million contract, Northrop Grumman will complete the design and development activity currently underway and will also be responsible for integrating HALO ...

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