Electronics related to Military/Aerospace
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) presence in Spain is set to be strengthened. It has announced signing a dozen contracts with Spanish space industry organisations. And the country also officially signed up for the ESA’s Zero Debris Charter. The Spanish space agency – the Agencia Espacial Española (AEE) – signed a new letter of intent with ESA during celebrations of ...
The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has awarded £287,000 to the University of Northumbria to further research the use of Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) exercise and associated hardware technology. Specifically, the Personalised Tourniquet System for Spaceflight (PTSS). This will involve testing in a microgravity environment to examine rehabilitation and strength training beyond Earth. BFR BFR is a technique for training efficiently ...
The Swedish telco Tele2 is partnering with Skylo to launch a global satellite IoT connectivity service. Skylo is a narrowband non-terrestrial network (NB-NTN) service provider. It offers 3GPP Rel-17 based satellite connectivity, whether for sensor data, SMS, or voice calls. Handover The service for Tele2 will enable devices to remain connected in areas without terrestrial networks. And they will be ...
Momentus, an in-space transportation company, has been awarded a $5.1 million contract to enable, in-orbit, a novel semiconductor manufacturing technology demonstration. The award is to support Nasa’s COSMIC (Commercial Orbital System for Microgravity In-Space Crystallization) demonstration. It will be using the microgravity environment to potentially advance crystal growth, for pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and advanced materials. “Momentus is proud to support NASA ...
Stoke Space has raised $510m in Series D funding, supporting the first launch of its reusable Nova rocket. The company is looking to build the world’s first 100% reusable medium-lift rocket, it says. For example, for the high-frequency access to orbit required by satellite constellation deployment. The latest investment round was led by Thomas Tull’s USIT (US Innovative Technology Fund). ...
HarmonEyes, which specialises in eye-tracking systems, is working with the NASA-funded Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH), an applied research consortium. This will be to deploy H-SMART, its eye-tracking system designed to predict cognitive load and fatigue in real-time. In other words, before it potentially becomes a behavioural safety risk. Antarctica The work with TRISH for astronauts begins later ...
CLS, a satellite services company, has bought Ground Control Technologies, a UK- and US-based specialist in satellite IoT devices and cloud-based monitoring platforms. The acquisition brings four new operational sites to the Toulouse-based CLS, which has an Earth Observation focus. They will join its existing 31 offices across five continents, employing 1,100 people. IoT While both sometimes operate in the ...
A hyper-beam array lithography system has been introduced to the US, based on architecture pioneered in Europe. The lithography tool operates with 65,000 independently controlled parallel beams which delivers capabilities at a scale no electron beam technology can match, said the company. Installed at Northrup Grumann, it addresses the holy grail of chip design, said founder and CEO, Lex Keen. ...
Sateliot and Nordic Semiconductor are boasting an industry milestone with the space-based completion of a 5G IoT transmission for a standard commercial cellular IoT device. This was via Sateliot’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. The demo consisted of sending an end-to-end message using Nordic Semiconductor’s standard nRF9151 low power cellular IoT module. Without any hardware changes, the nRF9151 module ...
The space infrastructure company Intuitive Machines has completed its acquisition of KinetX, which specialises in deep space navigation. With the deal being first announced in August, the stock acquisition has now completed for $30 million. This includes $15 million in cash and approximately 1,400,000 shares of Intuitive Machines common stock. KinetX Intuitive Machines highlighted that KinetX had a track record ...
