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SatixFy, SWISSto12 team up for software-defined satellite payloads

SatixFy and SWISSto12 are teaming up for the development and commercialisation of end-to-end MEO (Medium Earth orbit) and GEO (geostationary orbit) telecom satellite payloads. According to the announcement, the companies are working together on multiple advanced payload programmes and opportunities for telecommunication satellites. SatixFy is a UK manufacturer of electronic systems for communications over satellite based ...

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Microsoft brings its cybersecurity intelligence to Space ISAC

Microsoft is joining the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC), which is intended to protect space-based critical assets by responding to detected vulnerabilities, incidents, and threats. It has become the Space ISAC’s newest founding member and the company highlights that it is “the first hyperscale cloud service provider to join this member organization” and says ...

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ESA invites mobile app developers to Space App Camp 2021

An invitation from the European Space Agency (ESA) – it is looking for applications to join its Space App Camp 2021. It is inviting up to 25 mobile app developers and specialists in artificial and machine learning related to observing Earth from space to sign up for its annual Space App Camp programme. It will ...

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The National Space Propulsion Test Facility is rocket testing

A UK rocket test facility has been unveiled by the Science Minister Amanda Solloway – the National Space Propulsion Test Facility (NSPTF), located at the Westcott Space Cluster in Aylesbury. The centre is designed to allow companies and universities to test state-of-the-art propulsion engines which are used to move small satellites in space. It could ...

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Digi-Key launches myLists consolidated list management system

Digi-Key Electronics has launched a way – dubbed myLists – to make it easier for customers to manage their component sourcing lists in one place. The idea is to streamline customers’ BOM management, price and availability checking and repeat favorites into one system. The tool also includes an attrition calculator to plan for overages that ...

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Arqit’s Federated Quantum System promises satellite-based encryption

A UK company, Arqit, which specialises in quantum encryption technology involving satellite links, is at the centre of a newly announced international consortium of companies and government organisations. Aimed at edge devices and cloud computing, the quantum encryption technology uses a federated system concept and is dubbed the Federated Quantum System (FQS). News of the ...

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ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer begins environmental testing

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer – dubbed Juice – has begun its environmental testing, having moved into the ‘Large Space Simulator’ (LSS) at ESA’s test centre in the Netherlands. Located in Noordwijk – in the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) – LSS is described as Europe’s single largest vacuum chamber. It’s a cylindrical ...

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Wisa Woodsat wooden CubeSat heading to Earth’s orbit

A wooden satellite is being prepared in Finland, the Wisa Woodsat, to test the applicability of wooden materials, especially WISA-Birch plywood, in spacecraft structures. The proposed nanosatellite is based on the CubeSat standard, measuring roughly 10 x 10 x 10cm. It will be exposed to extreme space conditions – heat, cold, vacuum and radiation – ...

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UK gov funds nanosatellite competition for decarbonisation

The UK government will be launching a competition for nanosatellite designs that can help support and monitor the UK’s decarbonisation targets. Dubbed LaunchUK Nanosat, it’s aimed at younger people (16+) – the “next generation of British space scientists” – to design a nanosatellite. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps was at Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall when ...

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Sierra Space signs up Spaceport Cornwall for Dream Chaser landings

Sierra Space has given a boost to the hopes of Spaceport Cornwall to be the landing centre for space vehicles, such as Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser. The US company – headquartered in Sparks, Nevada – is the new commercial space subsidiary of aerospace specialist Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC). It has signed a memorandum of understanding ...

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