Electronics related to Military/Aerospace
Solestial, a space solar energy startup, has won a $1.2 million SpaceWERX contract to develop a novel solar array for small satellites. SpaceWERX is the U.S. Air Force space technology accelerator programme. And the requirements are for a fast to manufacture, multiorbital solar array wing concept. The organisation awarded a Direct-to-Phase II contract. Radiation-hardened Solestial says it will be optimising ...
Abaco Systems has picked Nvidia’s RTXx000 Blackwell architecture for its latest SOSA-aligned 3U VPX graphics and GPGPU card. GRA118SL is available with RTX 4000 or RTX 5000 GPUs, and has 24Gbyte GDDR7 memory with ECC and a 256bit interface. Both GPU variants support 9th Gen NVENC and 6th Gen NVDEC engines with 4:2:2 video encoding, GPUDirect RDMA, and are available ...
The European Space Agency’s Φsat-2 satellite has completed its commissioning and begun delivering data. The craft is testing onboard AI for Earth observation, efficiently processing and compressing the Earth observation images. The 6U CubeSat, with its multispectral camera, will be capable of detecting wildfires, ship movements, and marine pollution, for example. Having launched in August 2024 from the Vandenberg Space ...
Astrobotic, a lunar logistics company, has won a Nasa contract to develop its Extra Large Vertical Solar Array technology (VSAT-XL). Standing at 30m tall, they will have the ability to generate 50kW of power from the dual 20-meter-long solar panels. Astrobotic highlights that VSAT-XL would be the largest planned lunar power infrastructure to date. The plan is to meet the ...
Two UK companies, Magdrive and Perpetual Atomics, have signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for developing the use of nuclear-plasma propulsion in space. Magdrive, the developer of high-performance plasma propulsion for spacecraft, will be working with with Perpetual Atomics, the company behind space nuclear power systems. They aim to integrate space-grade radioisotope power systems with plasma propulsion. This could unlock a ...
The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has released its summary report of the “Size and Health of the UK Space Industry” for the previous year. Headline findings include the UK Space Industry growing in real terms by 3.3% per year, as part of the UK economy. And space industry employment grew 7%, with an estimated 55,550 full time jobs. Note, too, ...
The Orbital Edge Accelerator programme is run by the ISS National Lab to help incubate space startups. And it has now selected six companies to help further their space-based research. The six chosen startups are: Kall Morris Inc, Magma Space, Melagen Labs, Olfera, Quantum Qool, and Raptor Dynamix. Their application areas range from in-space logistics, satellite control systems and radiation ...
Varda Space Industries, the microgravity-enabled life sciences company, has raised a further $187 million in Series C funding for in space pharmaceutical manufacturing. It brings the total amount of capital it has raised to $329 million. The latest investment was led by Natural Capital and Shrug Capital. Also participating were Founders Fund, Peter Thiel, Khosla Ventures, Caffeinated Capital, Lux Capital, ...
Firefly Aerospace, the U.S. space and defence technology company, is looking to go public on Nasdaq. The company has registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering (IPO) of shares of its common stock, it has announced. The number of shares, and their pricing, has yet to be determined. Nasdaq Firefly says it will ...
To address supply chain disruption issues or long term obsolences problems for electronics and interconnect products, distributor Astute Group has signed a global deal with the UK’s Winslow Adaptics. Winslow Adaptics specialises in solving electronic and mechanical obsolescence with custom adapters and interposers, IC footprint conversion, test modules, asic to FPGA migration, and connector reverse engineering. It uses its in-house ...
