Satellite

The Inspiring Girls Foundation and HISPASAT, the Spanish satellite communications operator, joined forces to host an event entitled “Girls and the Space Sector” at the Space Centre of the National Aerospace Technical Institute (INTA) in Maspalomas, Canary Islands, with 50 girls attending from the Guanarteme de Las Palmas high school. …

Equatorial Space Industries has secured Angel capital from individual investors earlier this year enabling the company to continue the development of its innovative, hybrid rocket systems. The investment round allows the previously all-volunteer organisation to move towards a full-time business operations, and to secure new premises in the Pioneer area …

Ursa has signed a collaboration agreement with ICEYE to expand the global market for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data and analytic products. Building on an existing partnership with ICEYE to provide satellite data to Ursa and its customers in the energy sector, Ursa will now additionally become a reseller of …

Lockheed Martin has developed satellite imagery recognition system using open-source deep learning libraries to quickly identify and classify objects or targets in large areas across the world, potentially saving image analysts countless hours manually categorising and labelling items within an image. Global Automated Target Recognition runs in the cloud. Fast …

The UK Space Agency and Cornwall Council intend to make available up to £20 million for Spaceport Cornwall and US launch operator Virgin Orbit to develop facilities and operational capabilities that would enable small satellite launch from Cornwall in the early 2020s. This investment remains subject to business case approval …

Grass SAT, an innovative, new grass management service has been launched by Rezatec, a geospatial data analytics company, to provide dairy farmers with automated daily updates of grass cover per paddock, and other features, to optimise grazing management decisions throughout the year. Increasingly, dairy farmers are looking for new ways …

Burloak Technologies and MDA have announced the recent award of the Canadian Space Agency’s Space Technology Development Program (STDP) project “Large Scale Additive Manufactured RF Satellite Communication Sub-Systems”. This two-year project will directly advance Burloak’s recent success in the application of additive manufacturing (A.M.) for flight applications in commercial space. …

In December 2018, GomSpace signed a development contract with ESA for the initiation of a new GOMX-5 satellite mission. The purpose of the mission is to demonstrate new nanosatellite capabilities for the next generation of constellations requiring high-speed communications links and high levels of manoeuvrability. The GOMX-5 mission will consist …

EVERYWHERE Communications has entered into an agreement with GEOS Emergency Response Service to integrate global SOS response into EVERYWHERE’s always connected services. EVERYWHERE provides safety, security and productivity solutions for enterprise & government organisations with people & assets deployed globally. EVERYWHERE provides a vital communication link to save lives. The …

Speedcast and Contiamo are to embark on a partnership that will see the companies working together to deliver analytics solutions for optimised operational decision-making. The partnership strengthens Speedcast’s Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities and helps enable the company to play a prime systems integrator role in the deployment of end-to-end …