Digi-Key Electronics has launched a way – dubbed myLists – to make it easier for customers to manage their component sourcing lists in one place. The idea is to streamline customers’ BOM management, price and availability checking and repeat favorites into one system. The tool also includes an attrition calculator to plan for overages that ...
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A UK company, Arqit, which specialises in quantum encryption technology involving satellite links, is at the centre of a newly announced international consortium of companies and government organisations. Aimed at edge devices and cloud computing, the quantum encryption technology uses a federated system concept and is dubbed the Federated Quantum System (FQS). News of the ...
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ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer – dubbed Juice – has begun its environmental testing, having moved into the ‘Large Space Simulator’ (LSS) at ESA’s test centre in the Netherlands. Located in Noordwijk – in the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) – LSS is described as Europe’s single largest vacuum chamber. It’s a cylindrical ...
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A wooden satellite is being prepared in Finland, the Wisa Woodsat, to test the applicability of wooden materials, especially WISA-Birch plywood, in spacecraft structures. The proposed nanosatellite is based on the CubeSat standard, measuring roughly 10 x 10 x 10cm. It will be exposed to extreme space conditions – heat, cold, vacuum and radiation – ...
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The UK government will be launching a competition for nanosatellite designs that can help support and monitor the UK’s decarbonisation targets. Dubbed LaunchUK Nanosat, it’s aimed at younger people (16+) – the “next generation of British space scientists” – to design a nanosatellite. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps was at Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall when ...
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Sierra Space has given a boost to the hopes of Spaceport Cornwall to be the landing centre for space vehicles, such as Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser. The US company – headquartered in Sparks, Nevada – is the new commercial space subsidiary of aerospace specialist Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC). It has signed a memorandum of understanding ...
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Amazon has announced the first 10 startups to take part in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) Space Accelerator, with a UK thermal imaging company, Satellite VU, among those selected. The AWS Space Accelerator is a four-week business support programme that is open to space startups. The criteria for entry was “seeking to use AWS to ...
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Relativity Space has announced plans for its Terran R, a fully reusable, entirely 3D-printed launch vehicle. The Long Beach-based company describes it as a two-stage, 216-foot-tall rocket with a 16-foot diameter, and a 5-meter payload fairing Terran R will be designed to be entirely reusable and capable of launching 20,000 kg to low Earth orbit ...
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Rochester Electronics is joining the Digi-Key Marketplace, which started last year to widen access to more product lines. The partnership is intended to address concerns about the ongoing semiconductor shortages. Digi-Key says it anticipates the overall component shortfall in the industry will likely last into 2022, but the Rochester Electronics partnership will help continuity of ...
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Inmarsat has agreed to provide the capacity backbone to deliver the IoT systems of Skylo, a satellite-based narrow-band IoT specialist. The agreement pairs the UK-based Inmarsat’s satellite network with Skylo’s IoT services for connecting machines and sensors. It will, they claim, provide “even the most remotely located application users with real-time, actionable insights”. The companies ...
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