Author Archives: Alun Williams

Apprentices earn shortlist place in UK government’s Nanosat Design Competition

The shortlist for the UK Government’s Nanosat Design Competition has been announced, with five teams – from apprentices to grammar school and university students – competing for a share of the £600,000 Challenge Fund. It was launched in November 2021, with aspiring space scientists invited to design a small satellite for launch, with climate change ...

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KSAT selected to provide Ground network support for the LunIR mission

KSAT, the Norwegian ground segment specialist, has been selected to provide ground communication services, working with Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, for Nasa’s Lunar InfraRed Imaging (LunIR) mission. To be operated by Lockheed Martin, which won the development contact from NASA, the nano-satellite dubbed LunIR is part of the Artemis I mission and its lunar flyby is planned ...

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Digi-Key to host RVfpga Webinar on RISC-V architecture and implementation

Digi-Key has announced it will host a RVfpga webinar, in collaboration with Imagination Technologies, on the topic of understanding RISC-V architecture and implementation on an FPGA. Running on Wednesday 23 February, at 2 p.m. CST, it will be presented by Dr. Sarah Harris, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Nevada, ...

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Jodrell Bank to coordinate mitigation of satellite constellations on astronomy

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has announced details of its new IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference. As the name suggests, it will be concerned with coordinating action to help mitigate the impact of satellite constellations on ground-based optical and radio astronomy observations. Specifically, it will ...

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Flutter embedded UI toolkit supports Windows Apps

Google’s release of Flutter 2.10 – the mobile user interface toolkit for creating embedded graphic components from a single codebase via native Arm code – sees added support for Windows Apps. The embedded UI toolkit embraced Windows, macOS and Linux back in March 2021, but now there is support for Windows as an app target, ...

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Astrocast’s bidirectional satellite IoT service launches commercially

Astrocast has made its bidirectional satellite IoT service commercially available, aimed at connecting IoT devices globally for use outside of cell-based terrestrial networks. The service uses Astrocast’s own recently launched nanosatellite constellation, in Low Earth Orbit, and it is bidding to support low-cost applications in asset tracking and telemetry. Target sectors include agriculture and livestock, ...

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Isotropic passes multi-link satellite trials for US, NATO Forces

Isotropic Systems, a specialist in next-gen satellite connectivity, has completed advanced multi-orbit antenna trials for the U.S. military, it has announced. The Reading-based developer of multi-link satellite technology connected to GEO (geostationary orbit) and MEO (medium Earth orbit) satellites simultaneously with a single antenna. The tests were conducted with SES Government Solutions, a provider of ...

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ICEYE raises $136m Series D for SAR satellite imaging

ICEYE, the Finnish satellite imagery specialist, has closed a $136m Series D funding round, led by London-based space investor Seraphim Space. New investors included BAE Systems and Kajima Ventures. And Molten Ventures, OTB Ventures, True Ventures, C16 Ventures, Chione Ltd, Services Group of America, the UK’s National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF), Space Capital and ...

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UKSA funds £1.7 million for space sustainability projects

The UK government has announced new funding for what it describes as “space sustainability” projects, which span industry and academia. Basically, the 13 projects will help track, and potentially remove, debris in space, in accordance with the UK’s National Space Strategy, which was released in September 2021 and identified a need for the UK to ...

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European Commission woos space VCs with €1bn Cassini Fund

As part of the Cassini Entrepreneurship Initiative, the European Commision has backed a “Cassini Seed and Growth Funding Facility”. The idea is to is attract more venture capital funds to invest in European small and medium size companies involved in space technology or digital services using space data. The fund is said to have an ...

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