“How do Integrated Circuit designers cope with increasing demands while maintaining a good work-life balance?” asks WIMMIC’s Technical Director, Ash Madni. If you feel like me in the above picture, don’t worry, we are not alone. In today’s commercial world of tight deadlines, technology nodes shrinking while silicon costs go up and the need to ...
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The UK government’s DASA (Defence and Security Accelerator) has awarded £1.3 million in funding for four “telexistence” innovations as part of a competition for commercial proposals. Entrants, in collaboration with Dstl and NDA, were asked to create a platform using Telepresence, Robotics and Haptics together. The three winners (actually four projects) are: TNO, Sheffield University ...
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Sierra Space is looking to further develop biotech and biopharma R&D in microgravity, working with the University of California San Diego. The space transportation specialist – which is based in Sparks, Nevada – has announced the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Californian university. They are looking to create what they ...
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The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which is responsible for space-based intelligence, has awarded six study contracts around commercial radio frequency (RF) remote sensing. The six companies involved are Aurora Insight, HawkEye 360, Kleos Space, PredaSAR, Spire Global, and Umbra Lab. The organisation – an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, which develops and ...
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The UK’s Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is launching a £1.5 million competition to trial the CHERI security architecture in a defence and security context. CHERI stands for Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions, and it addresses memory safety issues and enables fine grain protection of applications. For its part, DASA is seeking proposals to experiment ...
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It’s a hit. After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully “impacted” its target asteroid, Dimorphos. Described as the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration, the collision was announced by mission control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, at 7:14 p.m. EDT on Monday. Dimorphos ...
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PlanetWatchers, a SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite data company, has raised $11 million in a Series A funding round, which was led by Seraphim Space and Creative Ventures. The company specialises in using machine learning for crop monitoring with a commercial focus on insurers and the agricultural industry. For example, the satellite data can help ...
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The UK Space Agency (UKSA) is backing Clearspace and Astroscale to design missions to help clear hazardous space junk. The contracts – worth £4 million – have been awarded following the completion of a feasibility study of the CLEAR mission to remove two UK-registered derelict objects from low Earth orbit. A consortium – led by ...
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Open Cosmos, the British space company, has announced the Open Constellation project, which is described as a shared satellite infrastructure. It will be built and managed by Open Cosmos with the aim to provide data to address challenges around climate change. Essentially, entities that contribute satellites to the constellation gain access to the wider data. ...
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Satellite Vu, the British Earth Observation company, Satellite Vu has signed a second SpaceX launch contract for its second satellite, which should double its thermal data collection capacity. The deal will see Satellite Vu’s Mid-wave Infrared (MWIR) imaging satellite launched into Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in early 2024. As previously ...
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