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Digi-Key, Seeed Studio, Machinechat introduce private LoRaWAN-in-a-Box

Digi-Key Electronics is partnering with Seeed Studio and Machinechat for what it describes as the industry’s first private LoRaWAN-in-a-Box solutions for affordable and secure IoT. It’s aimed at IoT developers and engineers, and it combines Seeed’s Studio SenseCAP gateways and sensors with the Machinechat JEDI Pro Seeed Studio Edition software. The aim is to quickly deploy ...

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Women In Defence 2021 awards celebrate female engineers

The prestigious Women in Defence Awards have been held at the Guildhall in central London, and engineers from Leonardo and BAE Systems were among the winners. Sarah Cooper, a Senior Hardware Engineer at Leonardo, for example, was announced as the winner of the ‘STEM in Defence’ award. She was selected from among some of the ...

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Fleet Space finds funding for nanosatellite IoT

Fleet Space – the Australian startup looking to develop a global IoT nanosatellite constellation – has secured $26.4m (USD) of additional funding. The Series B capital raise – which gives a $126 million valuation for the company – was led by existing investors Artesian Venture Partners, Blackbird Ventures, Grok, and Horizons Ventures. New investors included Alumni ...

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DARPA entangles BAE Systems in quantum technology for military antennas

DARPA – the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – has awarded BAE Systems multiple contracts to develop quantum technology for radio frequency (RF) sensing. The goal is to break constraints to antenna designs that have persisted for more than a century, says BAE Systems, reducing size, and increase sensitivity and accessible bandwidth by several ...

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Isotropic eyes hybrid satellite comms for trains

Isotropic Systems, the Reading-based specialist in satellite connectivity, has joined a UK Government and European Space Agency (ESA) consortium to test hybrid satellite communications for trains. The project will demonstrate the use of 5G in the area of transport and logistics. Specifically, it will explore how hybrid networks, based on multi-bearer 5G technology, could improve ...

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Net Zero Space initiative launches from Paris conference

Eutelsat and Arianespace are among the companies and organisations that have grouped together for a “Net Zero Space” initiative, to help achieve a sustainable use of outer space by 2030. Including satellite operators, launchers, space agencies, academic and civil bodies, those taking part are committed to taking concrete actions to tackle reducing the debris orbiting ...

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Digi-Key Makes AR app to support 2021 Boards Guide

Digi-Key Electronics has partnered with Make – the publishers behind the maker magazines and books – to release an augmented reality (AR) app to accompany its 2021 Boards Guide. Divided into sections for microcontroller (MCU), single-board controller (SBC) and field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based boards, the guide helps students, makers and professional engineers navigate the ...

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Measuring size and health of 2021 UK Space Industry

The UK’s Space Agency (UKSA) is beginning to collect data for its annual report on the size and health of the UK space industry. The 2021 the survey – which is now open for entries – will be carried out by BryceTech and it is is open to responses from space sector organisations across the ...

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Kymeta, Intelsat demo satellite-enabled 5G services

Kymeta, a satellite communications company, has partnered with Intelsat, the satellite services provider, to demo satellite-enabled 5G connectivity for mobile comms. The demonstration involved Kymeta’s electronically steered flat-panel u8 antenna using Intelsat’s integrated satellite and terrestrial network. The companies described it as the first test of its kind in a mobile environment. The demonstration was ...

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Astroscale and New Zealand partner on space sustainability

Astroscale Holdings – which specialises in satellite servicing and space debris removal – has announced it will partner with the New Zealand government on matters relating to space safety, debris mitigation and on-orbit servicing in general. The Japanese company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with New Zealand’s Ministry of Business Innovation & Employment (“MBIE”). ...

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