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US Space Force selects Northrop Grumman to provide next-gen missile warning satellites

Northrop Grumman, the American aerospace and defence technology specialist, has won a contract to provide the hardware for the first two United States Space Force (USSF) polar-orbiting space vehicles. The contract, awarded by the USSF is worth up to $2.37 billion. It will be for design and development work in Phase 1 of the Next-Generation ...

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Crew Dragon successfully lifts off from US and docks with ISS

A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully launched from Florida at the weekend. It then successfully docked with the International Space Station within 24 hours. The spacecraft’s crew are the NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley and they joined the three crew members already onboard the orbiting laboratory. Behnken and Hurley docked to the space ...

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EDRS-C ready to start service for ESA’s SpaceDataHighway

An ESA satellite, EDRS-C, has now completed its in-orbit commissioning review and is ready to start service, as part of the European Data Relay System (EDRS). This system, dubbed the “SpaceDataHighway”, helps Earth-observing satellites to transmit large quantities of potentially life-saving data to Europe in near-real time. EDRS-C is the second operational node of the ...

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Bluetooth SIG and DiiA form IoT lighting partnership

The Bluetooth SIG has announced a partnership with DiiA, an alliance of companies from the lighting and sensor industries. The aim is to speed the adoption of IoT-enabled commercial lighting. The collaboration, it states, will enable the deployment of certified DALI-2 devices and intelligent D4i luminaires, with qualified Bluetooth mesh intelligent lighting-control networks, bringing together ...

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Viewpoint: Making additive manufacturers smarter via the digital twin

In the last decade, an exciting dynamic is propelling manufacturing towards 3D printing, or additive manufacturing (AM), writes Bill Davis of Siemens Digital Industries Software, discussing the digital twin. From a machining perspective, additive manufacturing enables designers to consolidate components, leading to less expensive parts, superior reliability, increased durability, and creative design. Also, from a ...

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PA’s 2020 Raspberry Pi schools competition looks to the future

PA Consulting’s Raspberry Pi Competition awards took place virtually this year, due to the pandemic. It was a strange irony of the times, as this year’s theme addressed ‘creating the sustainable city of the future using a Raspberry Pi’. The annual competition, now in its eighth year, challenges primary, secondary and college students across the ...

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Webinar: Select a reliable motion sensing technology for your application

Texas Instruments is hosting a webinar today on motion sensing technology – on how to accurately detect objects and how to select the correct motion detector technology. Industry experts will highlight the three most common motion and occupancy detecting systems: PIR, mmWave and Time of Flight. It takes place today, on Wednesday June 17th, 2020 ...

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IoC to host ‘Do Good With Digital’ workshop for young women

With schools still remaining closed, the Institute of Coding have partnered with social inclusion enterprise Sisterhood to host a free virtual ‘Do Good With Digital’ workshop. It’s aimed at 16-18-year olds, to give them a chance to work with industry experts and learn how digital skills can help them make a positive impact. The ‘Do ...

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Viewpoint: How open APIs give 5G the support it needs

We are surrounded by IoT solutions, from phones to smart meters to smart vehicles that are connected to the internet and constantly share data, writes Zoltan Varnai of Nokia. But while today’s cellular IoT devices are primarily connected via 3G and LTE networks, the development of 5G will broaden the realm of possibilities when it comes ...

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