Eutelsat, the Paris-based satellite operator, is abandoning its plans for the partial sale of its ground segment infrastructure assets to private equity. Sovereignty The deal will not proceed, as all conditions have not been satisfied, says the company. However, a French minister – Roland Lescure – said he refused to authorise the deal. His objection was that the antennas are ...
The small satellite manufacturer U-Space has completed a €24 million Series A funding round. It will fund expansion of the French company’s manufacturing capacity. The round was led by the French Ministry of Armed Forces’ Definvest, which is fund managed by Bpifrance, and Expansion VC. Other investors included Primo Capital, through its investment fund Primo Space, Karot Capital, ARIS, and ...
CNES, the French Space Agency, has awarded a €31 million contract to UNIVITY, a French satellite communications company, to develop space-based 5G for terrestrial application. The plan is for a fully integrated 5G non-terrestrial network, designed and built in France. It will be combining VLEO (very low Earth orbit) satellites with terrestrial infrastructure. CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) is the ...
MaiaSpace is celebrating signing its first commercial contract, with Exotrail, a France-based space logistics specialist. MaiaSpace is a launch services startup. Specifically, it is designing and manufacturing reusable mini-launcher systems. It’s a spinout from CNES and ArianeGroup, seeing the light of day in 2022. The design team is based in Paris, at La Défense. The two companies will be looking ...
Constellation.global, a French start-up developing a constellation of ultra-low orbit satellites to support 5G space connectivity for telecom operators, has secured €9.3 million in funding The investment comes from Expansion – a venture capital company that is backed by the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union, and a number of public and private financial institutions – and Bpifrance – ...
Murata has opened a 200mm silicon capacitor manufacturing line at the French campus it acquired with IPDiA in 2016. “With the launch of this new line, we are continuing to invest in growing our production facilities and our local workforce,” said Murata Manufacturing president Norio Nakajima (picured). “It represents a significant step forward in our growth in the sector and ...
France is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords, Nasa has announced. It’s signing up to an agreed set of principles for operating within the U.S. agency’s lunar exploration plans. The number of countries agreeing to the Artemis Accords now totals 20, with France becoming the fifth European Union country (alongside Italy, Luxembourg, Poland and Romania) and the UK ...
Next time you need to measure something with good accuracy, your thoughts may turn to the product of one of two Frenchmen: Jean-Laurent Palmer or Pierre Vernier. The clue is in the second man’s name, as it is to he that is attributed the Vernier gauge. Palmer invented the hand held micrometer, which is apparently called a Palmer or variations around that ...
Lacroix Electronics has moved into the Top 10 European electronics subcontractors, according to Reed Electronics Research. The French manufacturer specialises in electronics subcontracting for the industrial, home automation, health, automobile, civil avionics and defence sectors. Its turnover in 2015 was €280m including intra-group sales. This represented a 21.7% increase on the previous year. Lacroix Electronics has four factories in Germany, ...
STMicroelectronics is working with the French universities to create a high-reliability semiconductor research laboratory. The Radiation Effects and Electrical Reliability (REER) Joint Laboratory is a multi-site research establishment that will bring together teams from the IM2NP Institute, based in Marseille and Toulon, and specialist engineers from the ST facility in Crolles, near Grenoble. The REER Joint Laboratory’s research will focus on two main ...
