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TE Connectivity and UKESF sponsor EW BrightSparks

We are very grateful to the companies and organisations that help support the EW BrightSparks programme, and make it possible. This year, in what is the fifth year of running EW BrightSparks in partnership with RS Grassroots, special thanks are due to the sponsors TE Connectivity and the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF). TE Connectivity told us ...

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Coventry University building skills hub for UK electrification

Coventry University has received £1 million in funding to support a skills hub for specialist training around the electrification of vehicles. Aiming to supporting the Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD) community, it will be a specialised “market space” in which different sectors and training providers can get involved, said the university. The project is ...

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Astroscale, OneWeb get funding for ELSA-M debris removal service

Astroscale, a Japanese startup focused on space debris removal, has received €14.8 million in funding to demonstrate its ELSA-M servicer. ELSA-M is scheduled to launch towards the end of 2024 to provide a debris removal service to satellite operators. And one such operator is OneWeb, which will participate in the mission. The UK and European ...

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Astrocast buys Hiber to consolidate satellite IoT services

Astrocast, the satellite IoT service provider, is buying Hiber, a rival European Industrial IoT-as-a-Service provider. Under the terms of the deal Astrocast will acquire all of Hiber’s shares in exchange for the issuance of new Astrocast shares, representing 16.5% of Astrocast’s share capital. Hiber’s shareholders have also agreed to invest €10.45 million. Hiber’s services include ...

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ESA funds UK’s Open Cosmos to monitor Earth’s magnetic field

The European Space Agency has awarded a €5.2m contract to the UK space company Open Cosmos to work on its NanoMagSat mission. NanoMagSat is a planned small satellite constellation aiming to use a novel suite of instruments to monitor the Earth magnetic field and the ionospheric environment. It will succeed the current ESA Swarm satellites ...

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Digi-Key hosts Single-Pair Ethernet webinar for IIoT, industrial automation

Single-Pair Ethernet (SPE) is the subject of a webinar to be hosted by Digi-Key Electronics, in partnership with SparkFun, Würth Elektronik, Harting and Analog Devices. The title is “Remotely Monitor Equipment in a Challenging Environment with Single-Pair Ethernet” and the webinar will run on Wednesday, June 8, at 11 a.m. (CDT). It will cover SPE’s ...

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Amazon chooses top startups for 2022 AWS Space Accelerator programme

Amazon Web Services (AWS) – the cloud computing wing of Amazon – has selected ten participants for its 2022 AWS Space Accelerator programme, chosen for their innovation towards the global space industry. The finalists, it says, range from those seeking to draw insights from the depths of the ocean floor to examinations of the surface ...

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NMITE adds BEng Integrated Engineering degree course

NMITE, the UK’s new Higher Education Institution aimed specifically at engineering, has expanded its courses with a BEng (Hons.) Integrated Engineering degree. Based in Hereford, it had already welcomed its first students onto an MEng Integrated Engineering course in September 2021. The delivery of the BEng course will be similar to the MEng, says NMITE, ...

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Skyrora completes 3D-printed rocket engine test in Midlothian

Edinburgh-based rocket company Skyrora has successfully completed a fully 3D-printed rocket engine test, marking a key milestone in its contract with the European Space Agency (ESA). Specifically, at its Gorebridge site in Midlothian, it completed a 70kN rocket engine test as part of ESA’s Commercial Space Transportation Services and Support Programme (CSTS). The company says ...

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EW Compare upgrades its component price comparison tool

Our part-search-and-price-comparison engine, dubbed EW Compare, has been updated to take advantage of new APIs by OEMSecrets, the company that powers the tool. Among the changes, which include a refreshed UI, parts are now grouped by part number and manufacturer. This can provide more useful output information for non-exact part number searches. There is also ...

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