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The use of robots should trump that of astronauts when it comes to government funded space travel, suggests Lord Rees (OM, FRS, HonFREng, FMedSci, FRAS, HonFInstP), the cosmologist and astrophysicist. The UK’s Astronomer Royal – his official title – has said government funding should no longer be used to send people into space. Talking in the context of space exploration ...

Four UK technology companies – including a space situational awareness specialist – have been selected to receive support from the UK-APAC Tech Growth Programme, to help accelerate plans for expansion in Japan. Aimed at UK technology startups headquartered in the UK, the programme is a government-backed initiative run by Intralink, a business development consultancy. The latest four companies to be ...

Slingshot Aerospace, the satellite tracking specialist, has opened a UK base – Slingshot Aerospace Ltd – as part of its international expansion. Slingshot’s first offices outside its base in the USA, will be in Cornwall and London. It has existing locations in California (El Segundo) and Colorado (and Fort Collins and Colorado Springs). Melissa Quinn will step into a new ...

NASA, Texas Instruments and others in the space industry have created a qualification standard for using plastic packaged ICs in space: Qualified Manufacturers List Class P – QML Class P. “QML Class P was designed in league with NASA and other industry experts as a plastic packaging standard for space electronic,” TI told Electronics Weekly. The standard is based on ...

The latest report of the Space Foundation – The Space Report 2023 Q4 – outlines what the organisation sees as the busiest year yet for space. As well as a record number of launches (for the third consecutive year), highlighted figures include commercial launch activity growing 50% year-over-year, a 23% increase in satellite deployment year-over-year, and 14 new launch vehicles ...

ClearSpace – which specialises in in-orbit servicing – is partnering with Orbit Fab – an on-orbit refueling specialist – to create new in-space refueling and servicing capabilities. Under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) they will work to “accelerate the availability of propellants in space by creating a refueling service architecture”. This will involve pairing an Orbit Fab fuel depot with ...

Share My Space, a Space Situational Awareness (SSA) specialist, has closed its Serie A funding round, securing €10 million in equity investments. The tracking company – which advises space operators on real-time collision threats – also rebranded to become Aldoria, which is a former name of the Pleiades nebula The latest investors included Starquest Capital, the European Innovation Council Fund, ...

We start a tour of the UK space industry, seeing some of the most innovative players in action. Here, we talk with XCAM, the Northampton-based digital imaging specialist. Watch the video below to see how XCAM established itself in the space sector, the innovations they made, the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead, and its thoughts on the future health ...

This time, we’re talking Mars names, satellite data, tax returns, records in space, the Euclid telescope, GNSS, and more...

Supporting the move from custom hardware to modular hardware in space, Alpha Data has launched an adaptable processors development kit “which comprises a fully radiation tolerant reference design in a deployable VPX format. The core board of the kit will also be available in a deployable spaceflight version”, it said. ADK-VA601 is a system-on-module for (SoM) capable of OBP (on-board ...