OneWeb has formed a joint venture in Saudi Arabia, valued at $200m, to bring high-speed satellite connectivity to the country and its neighbouring Middle East and East African countries. The partnership – with NEOM Tech & Digital Holding Company – will see the deployment of OneWeb’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation aimed at businesses and ...
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LeoLabs has announced Australia as the site for two more space radars. The West Australian Space Radar site will add to its constellation of S-band, phased-array sensors. When the new radars are completed in 2022 it will expand LeoLabs’ total number of radar sites to six, and total number of space radars to ten. The ...
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Called Orbital Reef, plans to create a commercial space station in low-Earth orbit (LEO) have been announced by a consortium of companies including Blue Origin – founded by Jeff Bezos – and Sierra Space. Other organisations reportedly on board include Boeing, Redwire Space, Genesis Engineering Solutions and Arizona State University. Intended to “unlock” LEO, the aim ...
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The UK Space Agency has announced its commitment to a number of projects or initiatives designed to help tackle the issue of space debris. The three sets of projects to receive its backing address the issue of sustainable space operations and the problems caused by defunct and colliding satellites in orbit. Junk First, the space ...
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has finished presenting his Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 to the House of Commons. Points he highlighted included a promised £22bn investment in Research & Development, a new investment fund for business growth and an updated R&D tax credits regime. “We are making this country a science ...
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Digi-Key Electronics has added new features in its Scheme-it tool, a free online schematics and diagramming systems for engineers, teachers and students. They’re intended to help further simplify the designing, and sharing, of electronic circuit diagrams and schematics. Symbols and markup You can now use Ultra Librarian’s symbols, create your own customised versions and use ...
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The UK satellite company Satellite Vu, which aims to monitor the thermal footprint of any building on the planet, has raised £15m in Series A funding. Seraphim, the London-based investment group that has a focus on the Space sector, has highlighted this is Satellite Vu’s second successful raise in the last six months, for a total ...
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Lockheed Martin, Nanoracks and Voyager Space are collaborating on the development of a commercial space station – Starlab – which would be continuously crewed and support in-space research and commercial activity. Lockheed Martin has announced its involvement and Starlab – operating in low-Earth orbit – is planned to achieve initial operational capability by 2027. The ...
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Both the Intelsat and Eutelsat CEOs are stepping down from their roles, the companies have separately announced. Intelsat, the Virginia-based communications satellite services provider that was formerly an intergovernmental consortium, has announced the planned retirement of Stephen Spengler. He has served as CEO for the last six and a half years, having worked at Intelsat ...
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Creating 20,000 jobs and achieving a £4 billion share of the global space market is the ambitious goal of a Scottish Space Strategy published by the devolved Scottish Government. Announced yesterday, it involves collaboration between the Scottish Government and its enterprise agencies, industry group Space Scotland and the Scottish Space Academic Forum. Scottish Space Strategy ...
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