Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, working with Nasa, has rolled out the X-59, an experimental aircraft designed to quiet the sonic boom, at a ceremony in Palmdale, California. Described as a quiet supersonic aircraft and a one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims to use it to pave the way for commercial aircraft that can travel faster than the speed of sound. The ...
There's Lockheed Martin demonstrating its space-based 5G Satellite Base Station, Siemens buying Insight EDA, a mems-based loudspeaker that uses ultrasonics to reproduce bass notes, Imec's on-line tool that quantifies the environmental impact of IC manufacturing, and unwelcome news of redundancies at Imagination Technologies...
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 U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) has awarded contracts totalling $1.5 billion to build and operate its Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL) constellation, consisting of 72 satellites. The space craft will be providing global communications and “deliver persistent global encrypted connectivity to support missions”, for example beyond line of sight targeting, missile warnings, and tracking of advance missile threats. Prototype ...
Northumbria University is collaborating with Lockheed Martin for research into the role played by ‘nanojets’ and the reconnection of the Sun’s magnetic field lines for generating the Solar Corona’s heat. In a bid to gather more evidence about how often nanojets occur and how they impact coronal heating, Northumbria PhD student Ramada Sukarmadji, under the supervision of Dr Patrick Antolin, ...
Yesterday US President Joe Biden had a virtual meeting on the Chips Act with the CEOs of Lockheed Martin, Cummins and Medtronic and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. “Congress must pass this bill as soon as possible,” said Biden “there is an economic imperative. This bill is going to supercharge efforts to make semiconductors.” The bill puts up $52 billion in ...
Aimed at satellite manufacturers, Lockheed Martin has released an open-source interface standard to support on-orbit docking. Its Augmentation System Port Interface (ASPIN) is compliant with the Mission Augmentation Port (MAP) interface standard, which provides a mechanical interface design for docking spacecraft to one another. Details of ASPIN has been made available online. The aim is to be able to upgrade ...
The UK’s Satellite Vu has closed the second round of its Series A funding, bringing total investment to £20 million. New participants included Lockheed Martin, Contrarian Ventures and In-Q-Tel. The London-based company said the investment would help “building and expanding our relationship with partners overseas, particularly the US.” “We are thrilled to have raised further funding to propel our expansion ...
The US Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded Lockheed Martin a $19.3m contract to create a 5G communications network infrastructure testbed for the US Marine Corps. The testbed will be known as OSIRIS (Open Systems Interoperable and Reconfigurable Infrastructure Solution) and is part of the company’s “5G.MIL” programmes. These look to support the rapid integration of 5G technology across military ...
KSAT, the Norwegian ground segment specialist, has been selected to provide ground communication services, working with Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, for Nasa’s Lunar InfraRed Imaging (LunIR) mission. To be operated by Lockheed Martin, which won the development contact from NASA, the nano-satellite dubbed LunIR is part of the Artemis I mission and its lunar flyby is planned to gather data about the ...
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