Military/Aerospace Electronics

The UK has a new regional space cluster: the West of Scotland Space Cluster, the launch of which coincides with the arrival of Space-Comm Expo Scotland at the SEC Glasgow. West of Scotland Space Cluster The organisation – as with other clusters – will comprise local industries, education establishments, and regional development agencies. The region’s capabilities extend, it highlighted, from ...

ATLAS Space Operations has raised $15 million in an investment round led by NewSpace Capital, a space-focused private equity firm. Existing investors – including Michigan Capital Network, Beringea, Wakestream Ventures and Boomerang Catapult – participated in the funding round. As did new investors Michigan Rise and Red Cedar Ventures. The investment will be used to meet industry demand and manage ...

Viasat is introducing Enhanced LAISR (L-band Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) – aimed at governmental organisations – for airborne, maritime and mobile land users worldwide. Using Viasat’s global L-band space and ground network, it’s an on-demand managed L-band service for communications. It aims to meet, in small form factors, government requirements for highly reliable, high-speed beyond line-of-sight (BLOS) connectivity. The ...

Raytheon has delivered the first of two GEO mission payloads to Lockheed Martin for bus integration and system testing, the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has announced. It is described as a major milestone in the U.S. Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) Missile Warning Program, which will improve the country’s strategic warning capabilities and its ability to ...

Ofcom says its ‘preliminary view’ is that it will licence Kuiper, Amazon’s satellite constellation, to deliver broadband connectivity and mobile telephony to UK residents. ‘This document sets out our initial assessment of Kuiper’s application for an NGSO network licence for its Kuiper system using Ka band frequencies between 27.5-27.8185 GHz, 28.4545-28.8265 GHz, and 29.5-30 GHz. Kuiper plans to provide satellite ...

Vishay has added five solenoid-based haptic actuators to its IHPT range, which come with operation licenses from Immersion Corporation. There are four sizes, from 29 x 21mm to 44 x 37mm, that can provide forces up to 120N. Not immediately obvious from the photo, each transducer us in two parts: the top left part is a separate laminated metal bar ...

Verizon, the telecommunications company, and Skylo, a non-terrestrial network (NTN) service provider, have announced a partnership to launch a commercial direct-to-device messaging service via satellite. This will enable Verizon customers – starting this autumn, for customers on certain smartphones – to have access to emergency messaging and location sharing even when a terrestrial cellular network is not available. Next year, says ...

Scotland is welcoming its biggest ever space industry event next week: the inaugural Space-Comm Expo Scotland, at SEC Glasgow over 11-12 September. The organisers are expecting 3,000 delegates and 70 exhibitors, as well as 100 speakers including representatives from  the European Space Agency, the UK Space Agency, and Ministers from the UK and Scottish Governments. “There are currently an estimated ...

Nasa has announced that a new set of science experiments and technology demonstrations will arrive at the lunar South Pole in 2027 following the agency’s latest CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) award. Intuitive Machines, a Houston-based space exploration specialist, will receive $116.9 million to deliver six NASA payloads to a particularly difficult region of the Moon. Although the night temperatures ...

SBQuantum is celebrating a pair of new contracts with government space agencies: the European Space Agency (ESA) and the the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The Canadian company – based in Sherbrook, southern Quebec – is developing quantum diamond magnetometers capable of providing readings from space. ESA For the ESA, the company has been contracted to evaluate the viability of using ...