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UK prepares for its first satellite launch
UK prepares for its first satellite launch
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The UK’s commercial spaceflight programme is set to take off with its first ever orbital satellite launch. The first launch…
3D printed smart heat pipes with embedded sensors and energy harvesting
3D printed smart heat pipes with embedded sensors and energy harvesting
Technology News |
CSEM in Switzerland is developing 3D printed heat pipes with embedded sensors and energy harvesting for the European space industry.
£4m projects to clear space debris
£4m projects to clear space debris
Business news |
Two UK-based companies are designing missions to clear hazardous space debris. ClearSpace and Astroscale have been awarded £4 million from…
ST, CAES team on octacore RISC-V space chip with selectable cores
ST, CAES team on octacore RISC-V space chip with selectable cores
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Space system designer CAES is to design the first eight core fault tolerant chip that is selectable between different architectures,…

RF module for direct satellite IoT
RF module for direct satellite IoT
Technology News |
French lab CEA-Leti has helped develop a bidirectional module for direct connection to the Astrocast nanosatellite network for the Internet of Things (IoT). Astrocast in Switzerland operates a leading global…
Beyond Gravity sets up lithography division as it prepares for sale
Beyond Gravity sets up lithography division as it prepares for sale
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Swiss space equipment maker Beyond Gravity is reorganising to create a new lithography division alongside its launcher and satellite work ahead of a sale by 2025 The lithography business produces…
Spanish boost for satellites combining radar and optical imaging
Spanish boost for satellites combining radar and optical imaging
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ICeye, the Finnish owner of the world’s largest synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation, has teamed up to develop and build a new generation of satellites that combine radar and optical…
Reconfigurable 100Gbit/s laser links for satellite comms
Reconfigurable 100Gbit/s laser links for satellite comms
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Coherent (formerly II-VI) is to develop reconfigurable laser transceivers for flexible satellite communications up to 100Gbit/s in orbit in a US project. The project for the Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node…
MRAM in SRAM format comes in 1Gbit, 4Gbit capacities
MRAM in SRAM format comes in 1Gbit, 4Gbit capacities
New Products |
MRAM vendor Avalanche Technology Inc. (Fremont, Calif.) is using foundry UMC to make what it calls persistent-SRAM components on 22nm process technology. The persistent-SRAM is based on Avalanche Technology’s Spin…
NASA selects RISC-V CPU for next-gen spaceflight processor
NASA selects RISC-V CPU for next-gen spaceflight processor
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RISC-V processor IP provider SiFive has announced that it has been selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide the core CPU for NASA’s next generation High-Performance…
TTEthernet controllers boost Ariane 6 space launcher
TTEthernet controllers boost Ariane 6 space launcher
Technology News |
Real time Ethernet ASICs designed by TTTech Aerospace have been qualified for the use in the next generation Ariane 6 space launcher. The radiation hardened ASICs connect over 50 avionics…
European network for first satellite direct-to-mobile service
European network for first satellite direct-to-mobile service
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BICS in Belgium has signed a deal for global mobile phone coverage via satellite using the Lynk Global network. Lynk plans to provide the world’s first commercial satellite direct-to-mobile phone…
Android 14 to support satellite connections in smartphones
Android 14 to support satellite connections in smartphones
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The next version of the Android operating system will support direct satellite connections, says a senior executive at Google. “Wild to think about user experiences for phones that can connect…
OQ Technology raises €13m for satellite 5G IoT
OQ Technology raises €13m for satellite 5G IoT
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OQ Technology has raised €13m for its space-based 5G technology for the Internet of Things. The round was led by Wa’ed Ventures, the venture capital arm at Aramco (the Saudi oil and…
Quantum gyroscope for satellite stability
Quantum gyroscope for satellite stability
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Quantum start-up Q.ANT has teamed up with Bosch, Trumpf, and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in a €28m project to develop quantum gyroscope technology for use in space. These quantum…
Portable space to ground laser link demonstration – video
Portable space to ground laser link demonstration – video
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Wireless laser communication systems developer Astrolight has successfully performed a satellite-to-ground laser communication test using its portable optical ground station. The Lithuanian startup worked with the European Space Agency (ESA)…
Europe and memory markets cause WSTS rethink
Europe and memory markets cause WSTS rethink
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The World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization has recalculated its Spring 2022 forecast of the global chip market due to fast-moving changes. WSTS has reduced its forecast for 2022 to…
Beyond Gravity scales up for satellite launchers
Beyond Gravity scales up for satellite launchers
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Beyond Gravity is scaling up production of satellite dispensers for Amazon’s Project Kuiper. The company, formerly RUAG Space, is expanding its expanding its production capacity of satellite dispensers in Linköping…
First RISC-V processor starts operation in orbit
First RISC-V processor starts operation in orbit
Technology News |
The first RISC-V processor is space has started operation in a European nanosat. The Trisat-R nanosat developed by the University of Maribor in Slovenia uses a fault tolerant NOEL-V RISC-V…
Microchip to develop 12 core RISC-V space processor for NASA – update
Microchip to develop 12 core RISC-V space processor for NASA – update
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Microchip has won a $50m project to develop the next generation of high reliability processor for space missions based on RISC-V technology with European engineers. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has…
Using AI to detect lithium deposits from space 
Using AI to detect lithium deposits from space 
Technology News |
Startup Asterra in Israel has filed a patent to use radar data from satellites to identify deposits of lithium. The patent was based on extensive field testing for validation and…
Rating for designing sustainable space systems
Rating for designing sustainable space systems
Business news |
The Space Centre at EPFL in Switzerland has launched an international Space Sustainability Rating to encourage system designers to design and implement sustainable and responsible space missions. With the uncontrolled…
UK satellite terminal maker re-brands as all.space
UK satellite terminal maker re-brands as all.space
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UK satellite terminal maker Isotropic Systems has re-branded as all.space as its fifth generation system readies for production. The software-defined terminal is designed to connect with all networks via multiple,…
Nokia to supply radio for 5G satellite network
Nokia to supply radio for 5G satellite network
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Nokia is to supply the radio systems for a space-based 5G network that will work with standard mobile phones. AST SpaceMobile plans to launch its BlueWalker 3 test satellite in…
CEO interview: Americo Lemos of IQE on scaling up
CEO interview: Americo Lemos of IQE on scaling up
Interviews |
eeNews Europe talks to Americo Lemos, newly appointed CEO of wafer maker IQE in Wales. Lemos has been in post for six months having joined IQE from Globalfoundries in January…
Eutelsat to buy OneWeb – updated
Eutelsat to buy OneWeb – updated
Business news |
French satellite operator Eutelsat Communications has confirmed plans to acquire UK competitor OneWeb. Eutelsat, which has a constellation of 36 geostationary satellites, is already an investor in OneWeb with a…
IQE has vision for billion-pound foundry in Newport
IQE has vision for billion-pound foundry in Newport
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IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales), a leading supplier of engineered wafers, wants UK government support to help it create the “TSMC of compound semiconductors” in South Wales. Americo Lemos, the CEO…
CEO interview: The scale-up vision of IQE’s Americo Lemos
CEO interview: The scale-up vision of IQE’s Americo Lemos
Interviews |
eeNews Europe visited the Newport manufacturing site of IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales), a leading supplier of compound semiconductor engineered wafers and substrates, to interview CEO Americo Lemos. Lemos has been…


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