Space to Earth laser comms needs special tuning

ESA is looking into using lasers to send large amounts of data from geostationary orbit to Earth. It operates the European Data Relay System (EDRS) packages from that high altitude – payloads sharing room on commercial satellites  – which communicate with a constellation of low earth orbit planet-monitoring satellites called Sentinels. Currently Sentinal-EDRS communication is ...

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Industrial PC gets 26Top/s of AI processing

Staffordshire industrial computer supplier Impulse Embedded is offering one accelerated by the Hailo-8 edge AI processor, delivering up to 26Top/s (int-8). It is RSC100, which is built around an un-named octa-core Arm processor backed by 4Gbyte of LPDDR4, 16Gbyte of eMMC storage and an M.2 2280 M-key SSD slot with PCIe x4 NVMe support, as well ...

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Module adds voice control to industrial arenas

VicControl Go Stamp is a 4mm high module that adds local voice control to products. “Unlike Amazon Alexa or Google Home, the voice control takes place without an internet connection,” according to VoiceInterConnect, the German company responsible for the board. “Therefore, your speech data remains protected and are not stored on central servers. Voice control ...

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Rigol’s ‘most powerful oscilloscope ever’ reaches 5GHz

Rigol has announced what it calls its “most powerful oscilloscope ever”, with a 5GHz bandwidth and 20Gsample/s. It is called DS70000, and provides four channels with 10Gsample/s on all channels (or 20Gsample/s on fewer), 1 million waveform/s capture, 2Gpoint maximum storage, and 8bit ADCs with resolution up to 16bit. There is also a 3GHz version. For ...

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2021 O-S-D revenues crack $100bn for first time

Shortages, tight supplies, and higher prices drove up most O-S-D (opto, sensor and discretes) products in the economic rebound while CMOS image sensor sales were muted by U.S.-China disputes and softness in some systems, says IC Insights. Worldwide sales of optoelectronics, sensors and actuators, and discrete semiconductors (O-S-D) each climbed to record-high levels during the ...

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Packaging Optimiser tool from MacFarlane

MacFarlane Packaging has launched the Packaging Optimiser – an interactive tool designed to help businesses identify the total cost and environmental impact of their packaging operation. ThePackaging Optimiser uses bespoke software to demonstrate the potential cost and CO2 savings that the correct packaging solution can have on any supply chain. The digital tool enables the Macfarlane team to work collaboratively ...

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TT Electronics and Radwave get closer

TT Electronics has extended its partnership and made an investment in Radwave Technologies,  an electromagnetic tracking platform company. The latest development marks the expansion of the strategic partnership and will provide Radwave with advanced manufacturing capability for its next-generation systems under an exclusive five-year contract.   “TT  will help accelerate our growth as we start delivering production ...

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Jeff Bezos gathers Honeybee Robotics for Blue Origin

The Blue Origin space company, owned by Jeff Bezos, is buying the Colorado-headquartered Honeybee Robotics, which specialises in space-based robotic systems. Honeybee will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Origin, which is headquartered in Kent, Washington. And the deal – between Honeybee’s parent company, Ensign-Bickford Industries, and Blue Origin – is expected to close in mid-February. According to the ...

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