Euroconsult, a Paris-based consultancy specialising in the space sector, has released its 2022 space logistics satellite market report, outlining the on-orbit services required to sustain a space ecosystem. It says such services, ranging from launches to satellites’ end of life, are expected to generate $4.4 billion in revenue by 2031, with the involvement of more ...
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Digi-Key Electronics has announced it now supports the use of the Google Pay and Apple Pay digital wallets during its checkout process in most major markets. It already supports online payment by PayPal, and says it is now the first electronic component distributor to offer Google and Apple’s payment systems. “We’re proud to lead the ...
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Prestwick Spaceport, along with affiliated aerospace businesses, is launching a campaign to educate young people across Scotland about careers in the UK’s space sector. The spaceport, which is located near Glasgow and is planning to start satellite launches in 2023, is being developed alongside Scotland’s largest aerospace cluster. It has secured multi-million-pound funding through an ...
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Digi-Key Electronics, along with Texas Instruments, is hosting a webinar about isolated USB repeaters, titled ‘Enhanced Protection with TI’s new Isolated Repeaters’. Taking place on Tuesday 24 May 24, at 11 a.m. (CDT), it will demonstrate how to improve both performance and protection in harsh environments with high-speed isolated USB repeaters. Specifically, how it’s possible ...
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Google has announced the second Beta of its Android 13 mobile operating system. It says the release concentrates on “core themes of privacy and security” as well as developer productivity. For example, it’s added a new permission for sending notifications, a privacy-protecting photo picker (letting you select the exact photos or videos you want to share), ...
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Orbex – the UK-based private, low-cost orbital launch services specialist – has unveiled a first full-scale prototype of its Prime orbital space rocket, which uses 3D-printed engines. Specifically, the first integration of a full scale Orbex prototype launch vehicle on a launch pad is now complete. With headquarters and production facilities in Forres, North-East Scotland, ...
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It was Spaceport Cornwall and Virgin Orbit that took the headlines yesterday for the UK’s first planned satellite launch this summer, but Shetland and Astra Space are also planning launches, expected to begin in 2023. Astra, the Californian space launch company, and the Shetland space centre, which is now named the SaxaVord UK Spaceport, are partnering ...
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The winners of the 2022 Raspberry Pi coding competition organised by PA Consulting have been announced, with schools across the UK having been challenged to solve problems using the the single-board computer. Now in its tenth year, “Saving the planet” via sustainability was the challenge, to be addressed by school children in different age groups. ...
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The UK Government has announced the first UK satellite launch, to take place this summer, with “Prometheus-2” taking off from Spaceport Cornwall, in Newquay. The Defence Procurement Minister, Jeremy Quin, has announced two Cubesats will be carried on Virgin Orbit’s Launcher One rocket (pictured), taking off horizontally from a modified Boeing 747 jet, named Cosmic ...
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Virgin Galactic is delaying the launch of its VSS Unity suborbital space flights service, citing supply chain issues and “labor Constraints”. It says the launch of the commercial service is now expected to move out from Q4 2022 to Q1 2023. The VSS Unity test spaceflights are expected to complete in before the end of ...
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