Electronics related to Military/Aerospace
The UK government will allocate £500m to national space programmes to back high-growth technologies, it said. The investment is to help British companies scale and compete on the international stage. The announcement was made at the two-day Space-Comms Expo event in London, by the UK’s space minister Liz Lloyd. Note that the total is in addition to existing commitments to ...
Rohde & Schwarz’s CMX500 radio communication tester can now cover all non-terrestrial network (NTN) technologies, the company highlights. It also features a Constellation Insight Tool to create a digital twin of the live sky. The one-box tester supports NR-NTN, NB-NTN and Direct-to-Cell (D2C, DTC) technologies. Users can now test all NTN technologies on both network and device level, without the ...
Open Cosmos has announced its layered satellite architecture, ConnectedCosmos, for resilient Ka-band communications. The dedicated connectivity infrastructure enables a combination of narrowband and broadband services. For example, support for point-to-point broadband and direct-to-device IoT. Its aim, says the company, is to provide a secure alternative to intercontinental mega-constellations. To date, two satellites have been commisioned in orbit and more than ...
SatVu, the London-based thermal infrared satellite specialist, has raised £30m ($40m) in its latest funding round, lead by the NATO Innovation Fund. This brings its total equity funding to £60m ($80m) as it bids to provide thermal intelligence previously unavailable from commercial sources. For example, it can provide heat signatures associated with activities in buildings. As mentioned, the latest investors ...
The University of Portsmouth is partnering with Saudi space-tech company SARsatX. They will be developing the concept for an Earth observation satellite mission aimed at supporting climate science and environmental studies. Activities will be carried out by researchers and engineers from both the UK and Saudi Arabia. “Space-based data is essential to addressing global challenges,” said Dr Becky Canning, Deputy ...
BioOrbit, OrbiSky and Space Forge are the three UK companies to win contracts from the UK Space Agency (UKSA) to investigate producing advanced materials in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). For example, manufacturing drugs, processing ZBLAN fluoride glass and producing semiconductor seed crystals in microgravity. Specifically, they are contracted to produce three studies. These will assess technical feasibility, mature key technologies, ...
MatrixSpace is widening its portable drone detection portfolio with the launch of MatrixSpace Fusion 360. The system looks to fuse radar, optical, and RF/Remote ID sensor data into a unified view – the company describes it as its multi-sensor device. Unified According to MatrixSpace, this reduces false alarms while improving identification of smaller devices. For example, low-flying, and evasive drones. ...
Deep Space Energy has closed its pre-seed round of funding, raising €350K. This is to develop its radioisotopic generator for commercialisation. The goal, eventually, is to power Moon surface exploration. Investment was led by Outlast Fund and Linas Sargautis, an angel investor and a former co-founder of NanoAvionics. Note, the company has also secured an additional €580K via public contracts ...
Skyrora, the UK rocket manufacturer, is looking to buy ‘select assets’ from the rocket launch company Orbex, which is going into administration. Those assets include Orbex’s unfinished spaceport at Sutherland where work was stopped in 2024. “Skyrora believes that securing select assets is vital to preserving UK space capability, protecting national critical infrastructure and ensuring that technology and IP developed ...
European Engineering Consultancy Ltd (EECL) has been awarded a £1.5 million contract by the European Space Agency (ESA). The award is to deliver ground support equipment and environmental and space-qualification testing for a next-generation digital satellite payload. The end-to-end qualification services will include thermal-vacuum cycling, vibration and mechanical testing, EMC assessment, and comprehensive payload validation. The company, specialising in precision ...
