Electronics related to Military/Aerospace
Redwire, the space infrastructure specialist, has successfully completed the first deployment test of one of its Roll-Out Solar Arrays (ROSA) for the lunar Gateway, it is highlighting. Specifically, this is for the Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), a solar electric ion propulsion module. ROSA The company was actually contracted to develop two ROSA wings by Maxar, which is the ...
ALIGN is the Autonomous Laser Intersatellite Gigabit Network project and the consortium behind it has successfully built and tested its first CubeSats, containing a high-speed laser communications system. It is a dual laser, inter-satellite free-space optical (FSO) communications device. And it aims to provide an alternative to existing low-speed radio frequency (RF) high-power transceivers currently used in CubeSat operations. The ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has established its first optical communication link with a spacecraft in deep-space. It offers the hope of eventually establishing far-reaching networks of connectivity for spacecraft, the agency highlights. The link is with NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment, which is onboard its Psyche mission. This is currently at a distance of 1.8 astronomical units, ...
ASD-Eurospace has released the 29th edition of its annual ‘facts and figures’ European space industry report. It aims at measuring the value of the market for space systems design, development and production in Europe. ASD-Eurospace Among the headline figures are overall sales revenues of €8.8 billion, a 3.3% increase on 2023’s €8.570 billion. It also records space employment level in ...
Interstellar Technologies, the Japanese space transportation company, has raised $61.8 million (¥8.9 billion) in its Series F funding round. The new investors are: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Space Frontiers Fund II (operated by SPARX Asset Management), and Japanet Holdings. The company says the investment will help scale the manufacturing of its orbital launch vehicle, ZERO, for high-frequency launches. Space infrastructure ...
Eutelsat, the Paris-based satellite operator, is looking for a capital boost of €1.5 billion, and the UK government is among those participating in the funding raise. The government is joining The French State via the APE (Agence des Participations de l’Etat). Also, taking part is Bharti Space Limited, CMA CGM, and FSP. Investment Basically, the UK government is looking to ...
A new working group has been announced to establish cross-industry collaboration to improve the interoperability of product and environment simulation, models, and components using existing and new open standards. Accellera Systems Initiative announced the Federated Simulation Standard (FSS) working group (WG). The charter of the new working group is chaired by NXP’s Martin Barnasconi,with Qualcomm’s Mark Burton as vice chair. ...
Despite the future ambitions of SaxaVord, in the Shetlands, and Andøya Space Center, in Norway, Europe’s official Spaceport is actually located in the northeast of South America. In French Guiana, an overseas department of France. And the European Space Agency (ESA) has announced an official agreement to maintain this access for the next decade, to 2035. A new agreement with ...
Boeing has won a $2.8 billion contract, from U.S. Space Force, for the United States’ Evolved Strategic Satellite (ESS) communications programme. This is the space-based component of the U.S. nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) architecture. Operating in geostationary orbit – 35,700 km from the Earth’s surface – the ESS will provide persistent coverage to strategic U.S warfighters across the ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected five companies to advance in its European Launcher Challenge. Marking the completion of the first stage of the challenge, “Five Challengers” have been preselected to move forward. They are: Isar Aerospace (Germany), Maiaspace (France), Orbital Express Launch (Orbex, UK), PLD Space (Spain), and Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA, Germany). European Launcher Challenge The challenge ...
