In‐Space Missions, the Hampshire‐based company that designs, builds and operates satellites and plans space missions for clients all over the UK and internationally, has today expanded into state‐of‐the‐art new premises and announced plans to create some 200 new high‐skilled jobs. In‐Space has expanded into dedicated 500m2 offices in Alton, Hampshire…
The government has invited the UK’s world-leading innovators to help design a new ‘space age’ hospital that could use technologies and techniques pioneered on missions to Mars or the International Space Station, to help treat patients and make life easier for hard-working NHS staff. Up to £5 million of UK…
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) and Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, announce that they have agreed to a AUS$221 million contract extension for the provision of commercial satellite communications airtime services and managed hardware. Brigadier Gregory Novak, Commander Defence Strategic Communications Branch and Mr Todd McDonell,…
UK-based Teledyne e2v’s Space Imaging group signs contract with aerospace, defence and security company Leonardo to supply a specialized image sensor for the Hyperspectral Imager HSI on-board the Copernicus Hyperspectral Imaging Mission for the Environment (CHIME). Teledyne e2v, a part of the Teledyne Imaging Group, and a Teledyne Technologies company,…
OneWeb confirms successful launch and contact with all 36 satellites The latest deployment brings the in-orbit constellation to 146 satellites On track to cover 50 degrees Latitude and above by end of year; three more launches to go OneWeb, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, has confirmed the…
Two British space companies have successfully secured a total of £8.5 million to develop their world-leading small satellite launch technologies. Orbex and Skyrora, both based in Scotland, received the funding under the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Boost! initiative and will use the money to develop their world-leading launch technologies further and bring…
Rajeev Suri, CEO of Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, has been reappointed as a Commissioner to the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development. Founded in 2010 by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and UNESCO, the Commission was established to bring the goal of universal broadband connectivity…
Five new projects have been awarded a share of over £1 million of government funding to work with international partners on innovative space technology. Projects to remotely probe ice on Mars to help explorers find life below the surface, a system to warn of impacts of flood risks to infrastructure…
The UK Space Agency has awarded a National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP) contract to Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications to develop an in-orbit telemetry relay service for rockets called “InRange”. Inmarsat’s InRange service will reduce the dependency of space launch providers on traditional, expensive ground-based monitoring…
Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”), the market leader in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits, will launch its End-of-Life Services by Astroscale demonstration (ELSA-d) mission from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Saturday, March 20, at 6:07 am (UTC). ELSA-d will launch on a Soyuz rocket operated by…
Thales Alenia Space fosters children STEM ambitions with MARSBalloon project, that offers students the chance to design their own science experiments and test technologies that could one day be destined for Mars. According to a survey commissioned by Thales in the UK to evaluate the impact of the pandemic on…
Teledyne Imaging, part of Teledyne Technologies, is proud to introduce COSMOS™, large-format, back side illuminated (BSI) CMOS cameras optimized for astronomy. Exclusively developed by Teledyne Imaging, COSMOS draws on decades of expertise in CCD and CMOS sensor and camera development to enable new possibilities in ground-based astronomical imaging. Built around…
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