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Digi-Key’s Scheme-it plots new schematic features

Digi-Key Electronics has added new features in its Scheme-it tool, a free online schematics and diagramming systems for engineers, teachers and students. They’re intended to help further simplify the designing, and sharing, of electronic circuit diagrams and schematics. Symbols and markup You can now use Ultra Librarian’s symbols, create your own customised versions and use ...

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Satellite Vu raises funding for thermal building footprints

The UK satellite company Satellite Vu, which aims to monitor the thermal footprint of any building on the planet, has raised £15m in Series A funding. Seraphim, the London-based investment group that has a focus on the Space sector, has highlighted this is Satellite Vu’s second successful raise in the last six months, for a total ...

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Lockheed Martin signs up for Starlab commercial space station

Lockheed Martin, Nanoracks and Voyager Space are collaborating on the development of a commercial space station – Starlab – which would be continuously crewed and support in-space research and commercial activity. Lockheed Martin has announced its involvement and Starlab – operating in low-Earth orbit – is planned to achieve initial operational capability by 2027. The ...

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Intelsat, Eutelsat CEOs step down

Both the Intelsat and Eutelsat CEOs are stepping down from their roles, the companies have separately announced. Intelsat, the Virginia-based communications satellite services provider that was formerly an intergovernmental consortium, has announced the planned retirement of Stephen Spengler. He has served as CEO for the last six and a half years, having worked at Intelsat ...

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Holyrood launches Scottish Space Strategy for growth

Creating 20,000 jobs and achieving a £4 billion share of the global space market is the ambitious goal of a Scottish Space Strategy published by the devolved Scottish Government. Announced yesterday, it involves collaboration between the Scottish Government and its enterprise agencies, industry group Space Scotland and the Scottish Space Academic Forum. Scottish Space Strategy ...

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DSTL partners with U.S. on ML support for armed forces

The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) is to co-operate with its U.S. equivalent to better support armed forces with AI technologies. It has announced a partnership with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to jointly develop, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) algorithms for the armed forces of both nations. In the ...

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Digi-Key Marketplace adds QuickLogic FPGA technology

Digi-Key Electronics and the FPGA and embedded FPGA IP company QuickLogic are partnering to sell IoT and AI technology through the DigiKey Marketplace. Specifically, the agreement covers QuickLogic’s low power, multi-core MCU, FPGAs and embedded FPGAs, voice and sensor processing products. For example, included are the EOS S3 MCU Sensor Processing Platform, EOS S3-AI, EOS ...

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ICL magnetometer to help NASA’s IMAP mission study solar wind

Imperial College London (ICL) is to design and build an instrument for NASA – a magnetometer – for its heliophysics mission, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP). The university will also provide ground support and personnel to support the instrument and the IMAP science team. The boost for ICL follows an agreement between NASA ...

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Inmarsat to provide satellite backbone for Hiber’s IoT services

Hiber, the Industrial IoT-as-a-Service company, has turned to Inmarsat to provide the satellite connectivity backbone for its own low-cost, low-power network for IoT offering. The recently announced agreement pairs Inmarsat’s ELERA L-band network – a global satellite network for IoT – with Hiber’s IoT-as-a-service ecosystem. This is aimed at transport, logistics, agriculture and mining industries. ...

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European Space Agency scales up asteroid detection facilities

The European Space Agency (ESA) has relaunched its Planetary Defence Office, which works to protect Earth from dangerous near-Earth objects, aka asteroids. As part of this, it has expanded its coordination facilities serving as the central hub for the Agency’s asteroid data and analysis efforts. These are located in Frascati, outside Rome, and will be ...

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