Military/Aerospace Electronics

The Andøya Spaceport in Norway has officially opened, readying itself to be the future launch site – for small and medium sized satellites – of Isar Aerospace and its Spectrum rocket. Located at Nordmela on the Norwegian island of Andøya, the site’s opening ceremony was presided over by H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, pictured below. The spaceport describes itself ...

Following its acquisition of Inmarsat, Viasat has announced it is making approximately 800 people from its workforce redundant, representing about 10%, spread across the business in terms of geographies and divisions. The company says it has completed “a rationalization of roles in its global business”, to achieve both operational and cost efficiencies. It also expects to achieve $100 million in ...

Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) is receiving a £3.5 million funding boost from the UK Space Agency to help with its plans to vertically launch satellites from the SaxaVord spaceport in the Shetland Islands. Specifically, the money – via the European Space Agency’s Boost! programme – will be received by the UK subsidiary of the Bavarian company, which will have exclusive ...

The UK and Japan space agencies have agreed to develop a satellite-based launch telemetry system for the Japanese H3 launch vehicle. The goal is to provide an in-orbit telemetry relay service called “InRange” to reduce the dependency of launch providers on ground-based infrastructure. Instead, it will provide a global system using Viasat’s geostationary ELERA L-band satellite network. By using the ...

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 ...

Electrocube has created a series of metallised polypropylene film capacitors for high power inverters in military and commercial, land and sea, applications. Voltage ratings of 400, 600 and 1,000V are available, and capacitances from 100nF to 10μF, plus 15 and 20μ in the 400V range “Able to handle high surge currents without degrading, Electrocube’s 985B is a rugged, non-inductively wound ...

UNIO, a German space startup, has announced pre-seed investment totalling €2.5 million to speed the development and market launch of its UNIO ‘bridge’ product. This enterprise-class commercial vehicle system is designed to provide ‘always-on’ connectivity, specifically for connected vehicles transitioning between 5G and satellite connectivity. This is aimed at both the logistics and agricultural sectors, with first products expected to ...

Kuva Space, the Earth observation company, has raised €16.6m in series A funding. It will be used accelerate the development of its patented hyperspectral camera, double its team size, and launch its AI analytics platform. Kuva also says it plans to expand its presence in “key markets” beginning with the United States. The funding round was led by existing investors ...

Mira Aerospace has announced its “ApusDuo” solar aircraft has successfully conducted a 5G connectivity test, delivering comms from a fixed-wing HAPS (high altitude pseudo satellite) autonomous aircraft in the stratosphere. The demonstration (pictured) was conducted in Rwandan airspace and delivered 5G connectivity for approximately 73 minutes in the stratosphere, says the company, during which it reached a maximum altitude of ...

Engineers at the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) are researching new drone technology to help clear mined areas at greater speed and with more safety. A Combination of technologies – both advances in uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) and low size, weight and power (SWaP) sensing – are leading the development of innovative concepts for explosive threat detection, reported ...