Military/Aerospace Electronics

The United States Space Force (USFF) has selected two American universities – under its Space Strategic Technology Institute (SSTI 2) initiative – to carry out applied In-Space Operations research. Working in partnership with the the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, the University of Cincinnati and Texas A&M University will receive a combined total of $49.9 million funding. Areas of In-Space ...

D-Orbit, the Italian space logistics and transportation specialist, has raised €100m from a Series C funding round, raising about €100m. The company described it as one of the largest ever for a European Space Tech company, following a successful 2023 that saw revenue growth and the winning of €60m in European government and space agency contracts. It also completed an ...

We start a tour of the UK space industry, seeing some of the most innovative players in action. Here, we talk with XCAM, the Northampton-based digital imaging specialist. Watch the video below to see how XCAM established itself in the space sector, the innovations they made, the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead, and its thoughts on the future health ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) are to provide the Crew and Science Airlock for Gateway, Nasa’s proposed lunar space station that will succeed the International Space Station and be in a lunar orbit. Specifically, the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) of the UAE will be responsible for the development of the module. The Gateway station is intended to support ...

The UK’s Satellite Applications Catapult (SAC) has announced the winners of its Environmental Space Living Lab Competition. The byline for the competition was Revolutionising water quality and resource efficiency in Agriculture, Aquaculture, and Environmental Land Management with Space Technology. And the two winning companies are: Freeup and CSEQ Technologies. They will each receive support of up to £15,000 from the ...

After Nasa’s successful DART mission, to make a deflecting impact on an asteroid, comes the Milani nanosatellite, which is part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) follow-up Hera mission… Milani has successfully passed its Test Readiness Review, Tyvak International has announced. The craft represents two firsts: it will be the first to orbit an asteroid, Dimorphos; and it will be ...

Axelspace Holdings, an Earth Observation and microsatellite specialist, has completed a ¥6.24 billion Series D funding round, equivalent to $44.0 million. Bringing the cumulative amount of equity financing to approximately ¥14.3 billion, the latest investments came from SMBC-GB Growth I Investment Limited Partnership, 31VENTURES, KURONEKO Innovation Fund and other venture capital and corporate investors. Axelspace says the funding will be ...

Nasa is highlighting its work using autonomous drones for Air Taxi research. Observing how the devices avoid both each other and other obstacles, researchers at its Langley Research Center recently flew multiple drones beyond visual line of sight. The space agency reports that the drones successfully flew around obstacles and each other during takeoff, flew along a planned route, and ...

Nasa has been highlighting the progress carried out on work for new space stations, which will be used to replace the current International Space Station (ISS). The US Space Agency highlights the work of its three competing commercial space station partners – Axiom Space, Orbital Reef and Starlab – for the design and development of possible new “orbital destinations”. “We ...

Gitai, Honeybee Robotics, Northrop Grumman, Redwire Space and SpaceX are among the 14 companies selected by DARPA for sponsored “LunA-10” project involving commercial lunar infrastructure. They have agreed to work together over the course of the seven-month study to design new integrated systems spanning multiple lunar services. These include lunar power; mining and commercial in-situ resource use; communications, navigation, and ...