UK rocket company Skyrora is progressing its preparations for an orbital launch, announcing the opening of a new rocket engine testing facility in Midlothian, Scotland. The Edinburgh-headquartered space company describes it as a state of the art facility and the UK’s largest such engine testing facility. The site was commissioned and brought into service within ...
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With the EW BrightSparks nomination deadline fast approaching (Friday 1 April), it is good highlight one of the judges who has been a mainstay of the Awards and a constant supporter: Graham Curren, the CEO of Sondrel. He has kindly supported EW BrightSparks since 2018 and we are delighted to have him on board once ...
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QuadSAT, a Danish startup that uses drones for the test and measurement of satellite antennas, has scaled up its ambitions: it reports successfully completing a measurement campaign of large antennas – measuring up to 15m – at the Kiruna Earth Station in Sweden. The company highlights that its the first time a drone-based system has been used ...
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Kymeta, a satellite communications company that specialises in flat panel antenna technology, has announced new funding of $84 million, which was led by Bill Gates and also involved South Korea’s Hanwha Systems. The investment will allow Kymeta to expand its manufacturing capacity, it said, to meet antenna demand. The company also said it will continue ...
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Power over Ethernet (PoE) is rapidly gaining market share, in some rather unexpected places, writes Philip Lechner of Avnet Abacus. In fact, for a technology with relatively humble origins, PoE is shaping up very well indeed. A recent report from ResearchAndMarkets.com predicts that the global market for Power Over Ethernet (PoE) Solutions will reach $1.1 Billion ...
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A Rolls-Royce space reactor programme is among 13 projects that will receive UK government funding totalling £2m, the UK Space Agency (UKSA) has announced. The project lead by Rolls-Royce – with £249,000 of funding – involves developing a power station, for use in space, that could power the generation of water, breathable oxygen and fuels ...
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Slingshot Aerospace, a space simulation and analytics company has announced it raised $25m in Series A-1 funds, in addition to the $9.6m Series A funds previously raised in October 2020. The investment will be used to speed the commercialisation of its Slingshot Beacon product, said the company, which it describes as a “collision avoidance collaboration ...
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Lacuna Space has announced an agreement with Omnispace to collaborate on an IoT service that will use LoRaWAN to enable direct-to-satellite communications for a IoT devices, the companies have announced. The idea is for satellite coverage to fill connectivity gaps in hard-to-reach areas that are without cellular or Wi-Fi signals. It is planned for the service ...
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Destined for Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, NASA has begun assembly of the Europa Clipper spacecraft at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Engineering components and science instruments, from both the US and Europe, are expected to be assembled before the year’s end. The first science instrument to be completed, an ultraviolet spectrograph – one of ...
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Five months since its current CEO, Stephen Spengler, announced his intention to leave, Intelsat has appointed its next CEO, David Wajsgras. The Virginia-based communications satellite services provider, which was formerly an intergovernmental consortium, has recently completed its exit from Chapter 11 in the US. After two years of financial restructuring – concentrated around C-band spectrum changes for ...
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