Author Archives: Alun Williams

Aerospacelab breaks ground on Charleroi satellite megafactory

Aerospacelab, the geospatial intelligence startup, is building what it describes as a satellite megafactory at Charleroi, with the goal of achieving a yearly production capacity of 500 satellites. What will be the largest satellite manufacturing plant in Europe follows the launch of its facility in Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve (which will eventually produce up to 24 satellites a ...

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ATLAS Space Operations wins federated network contract for satellite comms

ATLAS Space Operations, a teleport operator, has won a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to demonstrate a unified federated network including space communications. Specifically, the Hybrid Space Architecture (HSA) contract was awarded by the Defense Innovation Unit within the DoD. It will see the company use its cloud-hosted Freedom Network Management Platform ...

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France signs Nasa’s Artemis Accords for space best practice

France is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords, Nasa has announced. It’s signing up to an agreed set of principles for operating within the U.S. agency’s lunar exploration plans. The number of countries agreeing to the Artemis Accords now totals 20, with France becoming the fifth European Union country (alongside Italy, Luxembourg, Poland ...

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Elektra Awards celebrate 20 years: Meet the selection panel

This year, Electronics Weekly’s Elektra Awards celebrate 20 years of recognising excellence, innovation and expertise in the electronics industry. And today we interview one of the judges to highlight the role in the awards of the Elektra’s judging panel: taking his place on this year’s panel is James Hayman, award-winning electronics engineer at Taylor Hobson. ...

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Satellite vu strikes thermal satellite deal with property data business

The UK thermal infrared satellite firm Satellite vu has struck a deal, with land and property data specialists Landmark Information, to provide climate change data to the UK property market. Satellite Vu, which aims to monitor the thermal footprint of any building on the planet, has previously declared its aim “to become the thermometer of ...

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Comet Interceptor mission plans to 3D-map a comet

A UK-proposed space mission – to 3D-map a comet for the first time – has progressed towards reality, moving from the design phase towards. implementation. The Comet Interceptor mission was formally adopted by the European Space Agency (ESA) at a meeting in Madrid last week, with the next step to select a contractor to build ...

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UK’s first satellite launch to serve CIRCE space weather monitoring mission

Dstl’s miniaturised space weather instrumentation suite will be among the satellites aboard the Virgin Orbit launch from Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay, which is due to happen later this year. The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and UK Space Agency (UKSA) have confirmed they will be one of the payloads aboard Virgin Orbit’s Launcher One rocket, ...

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Digi-key adds quote integration to myLists tool

The distributor Digi-Key Electronics has updated its myLists parts list management tool for users to include price quotes, to help with ordering efficiency. Basically, the tool helps buyers consolidate bills of materials (BOMs), price and availability lists, and quotes. And specifically, the new quote integration allows you to upload lists of up to 1,000 parts ...

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Nasa preps next-gen spacesuits for Extravehicular Activity Services

Nasa has chosen two companies to build its next-generation astronaut spacesuits: Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace. The spacesuits will have to support spacewalking in low-Earth orbit outside the ISS and also on the Moon as part of future Artemis missions. How much do the suits cost? Nasa’s Extravehicular Activity Services (xEVAS) contracts have a potential ...

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Sony launches laser-based Space Communications Corporation

Sony America, has officially formed a new company – Sony Space Communications Corporation (“SSC”) – to better enable space optical communications for micro satellites. The problem the company is addressing is that while the amount of data used in orbit is increasing every year (with ever more satellites in space) the amount of available radio ...

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