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Isotropic rebrands as All.Space as it moves to 5th-gen terminal production

Isotropic Systems, the UK satellite connectivity company, has announced it is rebranding itself to be All.Space as it prepares to launch its “fifth-generation smart terminal”. The Reading-based company is a developer of broadband terminal technologies for satellite communications and it is moving into initial production of its multi-link terminals for release at the end of ...

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Redwire plans PIL-BOX space-based drug manufacturing platform

Redwire, the space infrastructure company, has announced it will be creating a drug development and manufacturing platform for use in space. It is dubbed a Pharmaceutical In-space Laboratory – Bio-crystal Optimization Xperiment (PIL-BOX). Redwire will be partnering with Eli Lilly and Company, a U.S. pharmaceutical company, to conduct testing during initial flight missions for PIL-BOX. ...

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Lockheed Martin, Maxar Space win NOAA weather satellite contracts

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has selected two companies – Lockheed Martin and Maxar Space – to advance its Earth observations from geostationary orbit. The contracts were officially awarded by NASA on behalf of the NOAA to meet the objectives of the GeoXO programme. The total value of each of the ten-month ...

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EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Mihai Daniel Ivanescu

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Mihai Daniel Ivanescu, a Graduate Software Engineer at Imagination Technologies. Achievement Daniel studied ...

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Space Foundation sizes global space economy, boosted by gov spending

Research published by the United States-based Space Foundation suggests that the global space economy is now worth $469 billion. Its Space Report 2022 Q2 calculates the economic value of space developments to have grown 9% since last year’s total of $431 billion. Other headline figures include a 19% increase in government spending, as the geopolitical ...

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HawkEye 360 opens RF-sensing satellite manufacturing facility

HawkEye 360, the space-based RF data specialist, has opened an Advanced Technology and Development Center, which centralises all its data engineering and satellite manufacturing in-house. Located in Herndon, Virginia, the 19,000 square-foot site supports data processing, software development, and the manufacture of its commercial RF-sensing satellites for gathering geospatial intelligence. Housing up to 70 employees, ...

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EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Samrudhi Inamdar

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Samrudhi Inamdar, an MSc Astronautics and Space Engineering student at Cranfield University. Achievement ...

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EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Dr Ethan Gardner

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Dr Ethan Gardner, an R&D Engineer at Flusso. Achievement Dr Ethan Gardner, we ...

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Digi-Key celebrates decade of support for FIRST Robotics Competition

Digi-Key Electronics is celebrating its 10 years of support for the FIRST Robotics Competition. This is an international school robotics competition where teams of students build – over a six-week period competitive robots that can weigh up to 57kg. The exact tasks they face are changed each year. The distributor has received recognition for supplying ...

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Raytheon Intelligence & Space wins contract for NextGen Weather Processor

Raytheon Intelligence & Space has been awarded a $21.7m contract by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to replace U.S. legacy weather systems with the NextGen Weather Processor (NWP) programme. NWP is intended to ensure the improved safety, security and efficiency of National Airspace System operations by processing weather data and identifying possible safety hazards ...

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