The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) is to co-operate with its U.S. equivalent to better support armed forces with AI technologies. It has announced a partnership with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to jointly develop, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) algorithms for the armed forces of both nations. In the ...
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Digi-Key Electronics and the FPGA and embedded FPGA IP company QuickLogic are partnering to sell IoT and AI technology through the DigiKey Marketplace. Specifically, the agreement covers QuickLogic’s low power, multi-core MCU, FPGAs and embedded FPGAs, voice and sensor processing products. For example, included are the EOS S3 MCU Sensor Processing Platform, EOS S3-AI, EOS ...
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Imperial College London (ICL) is to design and build an instrument for NASA – a magnetometer – for its heliophysics mission, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP). The university will also provide ground support and personnel to support the instrument and the IMAP science team. The boost for ICL follows an agreement between NASA ...
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Hiber, the Industrial IoT-as-a-Service company, has turned to Inmarsat to provide the satellite connectivity backbone for its own low-cost, low-power network for IoT offering. The recently announced agreement pairs Inmarsat’s ELERA L-band network – a global satellite network for IoT – with Hiber’s IoT-as-a-service ecosystem. This is aimed at transport, logistics, agriculture and mining industries. ...
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has relaunched its Planetary Defence Office, which works to protect Earth from dangerous near-Earth objects, aka asteroids. As part of this, it has expanded its coordination facilities serving as the central hub for the Agency’s asteroid data and analysis efforts. These are located in Frascati, outside Rome, and will be ...
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The Finnish satellite imagery specialist ICEYE has signed up to participate in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Copernicus Earth observation satellite programme. The company, which specialises in the persistent monitoring of the Earth with radar satellite imaging, has agreed to become a “Contributing Mission” to the programme. What this means is that Copernicus services will ...
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Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force to design a next-generation signals intelligence (SIGINT) sensor. It will be used for high-altitude intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms Under the Air Force’s Global High-altitude Open-system Sensor Technology (GHOST) programme, the company will deliver a design of a prototype sensor. This will ...
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Euroconsult, a consultancy specialising in the space sector, has released its assessment of the commercial demand for Earth Observation (EO) satellite-based imagery and value-added services. It’s latest report covers eight regions and across nine vertical markets. The headline figures include the commercial market for EO data standing at $1.6 billion, in 2020, which represents a ...
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Eutelsat, the Paris-based satellite operator, has increased its stake in OneWeb to 23%, making it the second largest shareholder. It exercised a call option on a portion of the latest OneWeb funding round subscribed by Bharti, for a consideration of $165 million, taking its shareholding from 17.6% to 22.9%. The Indian company is the largest shareholder ...
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Dr Carol Marsh OBE – the Deputy Head of Electronics Engineering at the aerospace company Leonardo – has been selected by members of the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Council to chair the organisation. The decision makes her the first female Chair of the IET in its 150-year history. Her tenure will run until ...
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