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 Sergio Miguez Aparicio, a MEng Hons Electronics and Computer Science Student at ...
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The Danish company QuadSAT – which uses drones for the test and measurement of satellite antennas – has received additional funding of €500,000 by the European Space Agency (ESA). Under the agency’s ARTES Core Competitiveness programme, the startup will develop, validate and certify its UAV testing system, to enable accurate satellite antenna testing and calibration. ...
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Satellite Vu has announced it will be working with Orbit Logic’s collection planning software for the operation of its planned constellation of high resolution thermal imaging satellites. The UK company’s stated aim is to monitor the temperature of any building on the planet in near real-time using mid-wave infrared (MWIR) imaging. Specifically, following this agreement, ...
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The UK’s Defence and Security Accelerator has launched a new competition, involving blood, sweat, tears, saliva: Generation-after-next Wearable Technologies. As the name suggests, the aim is to encourage and find “innovative wearable technologies that focus on biocompatible materials that access information present within an individual’s bodily fluids”. Body fluids Up to £750k of funding will ...
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Dubbed an Immersive Innovation Hub Experience, Digi-Key Electronics has created an interactive simulation of a modern engineer’s workshop. Describing it as an “innovative web experience”, the Hub will showcase the distributor’s tools and technologies. Essentially, it is a way for customers to access the company’s resources, including products, videos, technical information, and calculators. Tools For ...
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The UK Government has announced it will invest £30 million to help secure the UK’s role in developing a space telescope to explore exoplanets. According to the UK Space Agency, the Ariel mission is due to launch in 2029 and seeks to understand the links between a planet’s chemistry, its evolution and its host star, ...
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The EW BrightSparks Awards, a partnership between Electronics Weekly and RS Grass Roots, held its celebratory award event at the headquarters of the IET in central London. The classes of both 2022 and 2020 received their awards, with the latter having seen their year’s event affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Thirty three young engineers received ...
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OneWeb has completed tests of delivering inflight connectivity on a Boeing test flight using its low earth orbit (LEO) network of satellites. The partly UK government-owned company was working with Stellar Blu, aviation terminal specialists, and also partnered with antenna specialists Ball Aerospace to incorporate its electronically steered arrays (ESA) into the terminal used. The ...
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Aerospacelab, the geospatial intelligence startup, is building what it describes as a satellite megafactory at Charleroi, with the goal of achieving a yearly production capacity of 500 satellites. What will be the largest satellite manufacturing plant in Europe follows the launch of its facility in Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve (which will eventually produce up to 24 satellites a ...
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ATLAS Space Operations, a teleport operator, has won a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to demonstrate a unified federated network including space communications. Specifically, the Hybrid Space Architecture (HSA) contract was awarded by the Defense Innovation Unit within the DoD. It will see the company use its cloud-hosted Freedom Network Management Platform ...
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