NASA has chosen Aerojet Rocketdyne, the aerospace and defence rocket engine manufacturer, to build the primary propulsion element for its Orion spacecraft, the Orion Main Engine (OME). Under the terms of the contract, which runs to April 2032, with a maximum value of $600 million, Aerojet Rocketdyne will deliver up to 20 new OME engines ...
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Glasgow Prestwick Spaceport has secured a launch partner for its development: the UK-based ‘horizontal’ launch service provider Astraius, which is promising to provide state of the art launch facilities. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed with Astraius for the organisations to collaborate for the orbital launch of small satellites from 2023. They will ...
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Inmarsat is highlighting research that suggests a rapid increase in adoption of industrial IoT in 2021 across global supply chains. According to its report, “Industrial IoT in the Time of Covid-19”, this applies in agriculture, electrical utilities, mining, oil and gas, and transport and logistics sectors. The company is involved in this area through its ...
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Nasa has announced the destination for its Artemis lunar robotic rover, which is dubbed Viper (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover). The site, to be explored in 2023, is the western edge of the Nobile Crater near the Moon’s South Pole. The region features areas permanently covered in shadow as well as areas that are bathed ...
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Northrop Grumman has been awarded a DARPA (US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) contract for a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite payload. It’s part of DARPA’s Blackjack programme. Specifically, a contract for “Phase 2 development” of an advanced, software-defined positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) payload. The contract includes options to build units destined for space ...
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The distributor Digi-Key Electronics is launching a new video series called “Potentially Genius”. In monthly episodes, a team of designers and engineers will dedicate 16 hours of time toward solving an everyday problem, following the four stages of product invention: discovery, ideation, prototyping and presentation. It will be done in partnership with Tomorrow Lab, a ...
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With the successful launch of 34 satellites by Arianespace from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, at the end of last week, OneWeb has reached the halfway mark for its low Earth orbit (LEO) comms satellite constellation. The company was bought from bankruptcy by the UK Government and the Indian company Bharti Global for $1 billion in June ...
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Digi-Key Electronics has joined with Power Integrations to offer the InnoSwitch3 IC family, as part of its Power Focus campaign. The distributor is highlighting rising demand for higher-efficiency, in applications, with stronger thermal performance from GaN (Gallium Nitride) replacing silicon. PowiGaN, which features with InnoSwitch3 chips, is Power Integrations’ GaN technology for reducing switching losses. ...
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What do Bude and Bilboa have in common? They are the landing points for a new subsea cable laid by Google to connect New York with Western Europe. It’s named Grace Hopper – after the computer science pioneer – and Google has announced the successful completion of the trans-Atlantic 16-fibre pair cable. The company says ...
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BAE Systems has acquired In-Space Missions, the UK company that designs, builds and operates satellite systems. BAE says the move will combine its own experience in secure satellite communications with In-Space Missions’ full lifecycle satellite capability, “to make a compelling sovereign UK space offer”. Founded in 2015, and based in Hampshire, In-Space Missions has more ...
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