Military/Aerospace Electronics

The power and control business of TT Electronics had opened its research, development and manufacturing facility in Rochdale, near Manchester UK, to work on products for “mission-critical aerospace and defence technology”, it said. “TT’s recent acquisitions of the Power Supply business from Excelitas, Torotel and Ferranti Power and Control have enhanced our customer portfolio as well as significantly strengthening our ...

Northumbria University, Newcastle has secured £50 million in funding to create a space skills, research and technology centre in the North East of England. Awards from the UK Space Agency and Lockheed Martin have been match-funded by the University to create the North East Space Skills and Technology Centre. The centre, which will be known as NESST will support the ...

With the UK Space Conference 2023 taking place in Belfast, the UK government has announced it’s bidding to join the Atlantic Constellation involving small satellites for Earth Observation. Along with Spain and Portugal, the UK will contribute a “pathfinder” satellite designed to aid early detection of climate change indicators. This will be built by the UK space startup Open Cosmos ...

 Open Cosmos has been awarded a £5 million project from the UK government’s Space Clusters and Infrastructure Fund (SCIF). “This funding will accelerate our mission to democratise access to critical space infrastructure by allowing faster integration of bigger payloads onboard our satellites,” says CEO and founder Rafel Siquier (pictured). Open Cosmos will use the funding to expand its manufacturing and ...

The race for comms from space is heating up. Viasat, the satellite communications company, and Skylo Technologies, a non-terrestrial network (NTN) service provider, have announced the launch of a global direct-to-device (D2D) network. Their infrastructure agreement will, they say, allow Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), device makers and chipset manufacturers to take 3GPP Release 17 compliant products to market using Viasat’s ...

Ireland is set to launch its first spacecraft,  the Educational Irish Research Satellite-1 (EIRSAT-1). This is a European Space Agency (ESA) project led by students at University College Dublin (UCD), and EIRSAT-1 – a 2U CubeSat – will provide an in-orbit demonstration of three Irish developed payloads. First, there is GMOD, a scintillator based detector, developed in UCD, which aims ...

The race for 5G from space is speeding up. Lockheed Martin has completed a final demo of what it describes as its first regenerative non-terrestrial network 5G Satellite Base Station (gNodeB). Basically, where a satellite provides signal regeneration, for bridging comms between Earth and a satellite network. It was the final demo prior to a self-funded space mission. The plan ...

The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has announced funding for research involving the refuelling for an upcoming mission to remove space junk. The aim, for sustainability, is to help prolong the life of satellites and prevent adding more debris to the space environment. Such In Orbit Servicing (IOS) missions are likely to be a key tool for ensuring the long-term sustainability ...

Terran Orbital has announced additional configurations of its new, largest Enterprise satellite platform, aimed at large constellation deployment. The satellite manufacturer – based in Boca Raton, Florida – says a new power storage system has been designed to reduce weight and increase the power available to the payload. Specifically, there are now three configurable, configurations: A, B, and C. Each ...

The ESA has signalled its intent to foster commercial competition to deliver space cargo return services, following the ESA Space Summit in Seville. At the gathering, the idea for competition was announced – open to “innovative companies based in Europe” – for a space cargo service. It will see a European commercial provider both deliver supplies to the International Space ...