Electronics related to Military/Aerospace
The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking to establish a presence in Tokyo to strengthen strategic partnerships with the Japanese space industry. ESA says it will now have staff permanently working in Tokyo’s innovation hub X-NIHONBASHI (pronounced “cross nihonbashi”) in central Chiyoda City. “Our relationship with Japan is built on decades of trust and scientific excellence,” said Josef Aschbacher, ESA ...
Three aerospace companies – Airbus, Leonardo and Thales – are joining forces to pool space exploration and Earth observation capabilities for a new European space company. According to a Memorandum of Understanding they will combine their respective space activities. For example, in satellite and space systems manufacturing and space services. Key player The aim is to create a “key player ...
According to the 2025 Connector Specifier and Buyer Survey, Harwin’s state-of-the-industry review, over half of engineers, CTOs and buyers working across the electronics industry expect their role will become more complex during the next year, making them somewhat trepidatious about going into 2026, writes Peter Schneid, Vice President of Marketing, Harwin. Figure 1: Over half of all engineers, CTOs and ...
The South Korean space startup Innospace has been granted the first private commercial launch permit from the Korea AeroSpace Administration, KASA. The “Spaceward” mission will use Innospace’s two-stage launch vehicle HANBIT-Nano. And it involves satellite payloads for LEO from Brazil, India and South Korea. These include five Earth Observation satellites and three experimental payloads. Spaceward Innospace CEO Kim Soo-jong said: ...
Open Cosmos, the company using space data to solve global challenges, has completed its MANTIS mission – a two-year programme that delivered Earth Observation data. Launched on 11 November 2023 aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-9, MANTIS was the first ESA InCubed satellite, backed by the UK Space Agency, and carried Satlantis’s iSIM90 high-resolution camera and a reconfigurable AI processor from Ubotica. Over its ...
The European Commission is proposing the development of a European air shield and European space shield as part of a new defence roadmap. The executive branch of the EU has officially presented its “Preserving Peace – Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030” with the aim to strengthen European defence capabilities. It proposes four initial ‘European Readiness Flagships’: a European drone defence initiative, ...
HyImpulse Technologies, a launch services provider, has secured an additional €30 million in financing, including raising €15 million in equity capital, as part of its Series A funding round. The company, which is based in Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg, says it will use the new capital to speed development of its SL1 (Small Launcher) orbital rocket. It will also expand its ...
Interconnect company, Molex continues its acquisition trail with the announcement that it is to acquire Smiths Interconnect. The announcement comes less than a year after its acquisition of AirBorn, the connector and cable assembly company based in Texas. Smiths Interconnect specialises in electronic components, microwave, optical and RF products and subsystems for the aerospace and defence, medical, semiconductor test and ...
The sky’s the limit for the aviation connector industry as governments and commercial carriers invest in modern, efficient planes, writes Caroline Hayes, in our Special Report on Aviation Connector Design. Connectors are used in various systems throughout commercial and military aeroplanes as well as in unmanned aerial vehicles, electric and hybrid-electric aircraft, where the different types are optimised for power, ...
The Gulf nation of Oman has announced a new 45 day space launch approval process, which is designed to position Etlaq Spaceport for more international flights. The country’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has introduced a framework to speed approval of commercial space launch activities. A move to address an international launch capacity shortage, highlighted the CAA. Approval process “This announcement ...
