Accion Systems, the spacecraft propulsion specialists spun out of MIT, has announced $42 million in Series C funding led by an affiliate of Tracker Capital Management. The investment both brings Accion Systems’ valuation to $83.5 million and means that the New York-based investor has acquired a majority stake in the company. The investment will support ...
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The European Robotic Arm (ERA) is due to launch into space today, and it will be the first robot that can ‘walk’ around the Russian part of the International Space Station (ISS). The ERA – dubbed a Smart Spacewalker – is set for launch on a Proton rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome today (21 June) ...
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been recovered to an operational status. The collection of science data will now resume, confirms the U.S. space agency. Its payload computer first experienced a problem back on 13 June, and the instruments were then placed in a safe configuration and science operations suspended. Since July 15, the spacecraft has ...
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Lockheed Martin has officially opened its Spacecraft Test, Assembly and Resource (STAR) Center, an advanced manufacturing facility to expand Orion spacecraft production. The STAR Center, says the company, will expand manufacturing, assembly and testing capacity for NASA’s Orion spacecraft programme and support future space exploration. The 55,000 square-foot space – in Titusville, Florida – will ...
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The European Space Agency (ESA) and Nasa will be making joint best efforts to help study climate change, they announced after formalising a partnership in this area. They say they will be working together to ensure that data from Earth-observing satellites are used to their best advantage, through the monitoring of the Earth and its ...
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Northrop Grumman has finalised its contract with NASA to provide the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) module for NASA’s Gateway, the next-generation replacement for the International Space Station. Under the terms of the $935 million contract, Northrop Grumman will complete the design and development activity currently underway and will also be responsible for integrating HALO ...
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Aimed at mobile-based machine learning, Google has announced what it calls the Android ML Platform. The company describes it as an updateable, fully integrated ML inference stack and its first partner working in this area will be Qualcomm. Developers will get a “consistent API that spans Android versions”, promises the search giant, with regular updates ...
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The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has extended the deadline for its Active Debris Removal call for study proposals, with up to £800,000 in funding available to develop ideas for space debris removal missions. The agency is looking to develop ideas for space debris removal missions, and it has extended the cut-off point from midnight 13 ...
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Seraphim Capital, a London-based investment group focused on the Space sector, has invested £2 million into two UK companies – Isotropic Systems and Commodities AI – ahead of a space investment trust IPO. Isotropic‘s flat panel antennas aim to deliver mesh networking satellite communications capabilities by connecting to any satellite in any orbit. Seraphim states ...
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OneWeb, the UK government-owned low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company – has announced the winning entries in its open Innovation Challenge 2021. The challenge was “to create new innovations, products, and solutions for small satellite technology”. It was run in association with the UK Government Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the UK ...
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