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Digi-Key to host Private LoRaWAN for IoT webinar

Digi-Key Electronics, along with Machinechat and Seeed Studio, will host a webinar on Private LoRaWAN projects, dubbed ‘How to build and deploy a private LoRaWAN IoT project within days’. Taking place on Thursday 31 March 31, at 11 a.m. (CST) it will be presented by Daryl Miller, head of solutions engineering for Machinechat. You can ...

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Imagination Technologies’ Chief of Innovation backs EW BrightSparks 2022

We’re very proud to announce that Tim Mamtora, Chief of Innovation at Imagination Technologies, is joining our selection panel for EW BrightSparks 2022. It’s great to have Tim on board, for what is a diverse and experienced panel, packed with expertise. And he highlighted the role of programmes such as EW BrightSparks in showcasing the ...

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ESA suspends ExoMars mission due to Ukraine war

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced it is suspending ongoing cooperation with the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos on the ExoMars rover mission, the second-half of which which was planned to launch this year. The joint ESA-Russian mission features the ExoMars rover, which was to be the first rover used to directly search for life ...

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Skyrora opens rocket engine testing facility in Midlothian

UK rocket company Skyrora is progressing its preparations for an orbital launch, announcing the opening of a new rocket engine testing facility in Midlothian, Scotland. The Edinburgh-headquartered space company describes it as a state of the art facility and the UK’s largest such engine testing facility. The site was commissioned and brought into service within ...

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Sondrel’s Graham Curren joins the EW BrightSparks 2022 selection panel

With the EW BrightSparks nomination deadline fast approaching (Friday 1 April), it is good highlight one of the judges who has been a mainstay of the Awards and a constant supporter: Graham Curren, the CEO of Sondrel. He has kindly supported EW BrightSparks since 2018 and we are delighted to have him on board once ...

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QuadSAT drone performs antenna tests on 15m antenna

QuadSAT, a Danish startup that uses drones for the test and measurement of satellite antennas, has scaled up its ambitions: it reports successfully completing a measurement campaign of large antennas – measuring up to 15m – at the Kiruna Earth Station in Sweden. The company highlights that its the first time a drone-based system has been used ...

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Bill Gates funding to boost Kymeta’s antenna manufacturing

Kymeta, a satellite communications company that specialises in flat panel antenna technology, has announced new funding of $84 million, which was led by Bill Gates and also involved South Korea’s Hanwha Systems. The investment will allow Kymeta to expand its manufacturing capacity, it said, to meet antenna demand. The company also said it will continue ...

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Viewpoint: Will PoE be the saviour of smart offices and smart cities?

Power over Ethernet (PoE) is rapidly gaining market share, in some rather unexpected places, writes Philip Lechner of Avnet Abacus. In fact, for a technology with relatively humble origins, PoE is shaping up very well indeed. A recent report from ResearchAndMarkets.com predicts that the global market for Power Over Ethernet (PoE) Solutions will reach $1.1 Billion ...

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UK government funding Rolls-Royce space power station

A Rolls-Royce space reactor programme is among 13 projects that will receive UK government funding totalling £2m, the UK Space Agency (UKSA) has announced. The project lead by Rolls-Royce – with £249,000 of funding – involves developing a power station, for use in space, that could power the generation of water, breathable oxygen and fuels ...

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Slingshot Aerospace raises $25m Series A for space situational awareness

Slingshot Aerospace, a space simulation and analytics company has announced it raised $25m in Series A-1 funds, in addition to the $9.6m Series A funds previously raised in October 2020. The investment will be used to speed the commercialisation of its Slingshot Beacon product, said the company, which it describes as a “collision avoidance collaboration ...

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