Ash Madni takes a personal look at some of the British companies that have shown an impressive ability to survive in tough economic conditions and still carve out a niche in the IC Design market. In the modern world of post British companies such as GEC, Plessey, Ferranti, STL, few can boast a history of ...
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Slingshot Aerospace, a space tracking and analytics company, is expanding its Global Sensor Network’s low-Earth orbit (LEO) tracking capabilities. The company says it plans make its network the largest commercial optical sensor network for LEO observation in the world, providing optical tracking of LEO objects at scale. Specifically, by the end of 2023, Slingshot plans ...
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As well as partnering with the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) for the Girls Into Electronics 2023 initiative, Apple has been holding its Electronic Engineering Academy, a two-day event for young women between the ages of 16-18. The open days – which took place at the company’s new UK HQ at Battersea Power Station – ...
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ClearSpace, the space debris removal startup founded in Switzerland, is expanding to the United States. With offices also in the UK, Germany, Luxembourg, it has announced its US subsidiary, ClearSpace Today, expanding beyond Europe for the first time. This will help it address the world’s largest space economy, says the company. “As a global leader ...
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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has awarded a contract to Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) to design and manufacture three satellites for the Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) mission. The microsats will help provide insight into thunderstorms’ impacts on weather and climate models The company – a provider of small satellites and spacecraft systems components, and ...
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Nasa has named Dr. Makenzie Lystrup director of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. She makes history as its first female director. Goddard’s range of missions support scientific disciplines including Earth science, solar science and the sun-Earth environment, planetary studies and astrophysics. It is, for example, the operational home of the Hubble Space Telescope. ...
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced both a new Office of International Affairs and a Space Bureau, to better support space-based innovation. Both organisations are formed from what was previously the FCC’s International Bureau. The leadership personnel are Julie Kearney as Chief of the Space Bureau and Ethan Lucarelli as Chief of the ...
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Astrocast, the nanosatellite IoT network operator, is participating in the EU-funded CiROCCO initiative, part of the wider Horizon Europe Programme. The CiROCCO research project aims to establish a low-cost and sustainable network of electronic sensing nodes in under-sampled desert areas and ecosystems in Egypt, Serbia and Spain. Sensing nodes It will collect data, through mobile ...
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Digi-Key Electronics is celebrating the company’s 50th year in business, having started operations 3 April 1973. Digi-Key team members will be recognised and will commemorate the milestone during a week-long celebration and during company events throughout the year. “As we celebrate this milestone year, we want to thank our team members, customers, partners, suppliers and ...
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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has released its 2023 Bluetooth Market Update, covering latest market forecasts for the short-range wireless comms technology. The report includes the SIG’s first forecast for LE Audio, Auracast deployments, and the transition from Bluetooth Classic Audio to LE Audio. It also covers new markets, such as electronic shelf labels ...
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