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Industry to collaborate on space communications by 2025
NASA selected six American satellite communications (SATCOM) providers on 20th April to begin developing and demonstrating near-Earth space communication services that may support future agency missions.
3 satellites launched by NanoAvionics
NanoAvionics, a smallsat manufacturer and mission integrator, confirmed the reception of signals and healthy telemetry data from all of the three satellites launched into low Earth orbit via the successful SpaceX Transporter-3 mission.
Elon Musk sends internet to Ukraine via Starlink satellites
Elon Musk’s Starlink system, designed to provide high-speed, low-latency internet across the world, was successfully sent to Ukraine after its internet was disrupted following a Russian invasion.
Top 10 tech books to add to your 2022 reading list
2022 celebrates the 25thanniversary of World Book Day. World Book Day changes lives through a love of books and shared reading and its mission is to promote reading for pleasure. With that in mind, here are 10 technology- and engineering-related books we think should be on your radar this year.
First 'GPS on the Moon' contract awarded to EECL
European Engineering & Consultancy (EECL) and SpacePNT have been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Navigation Innovation and Support Programme (NAVISP) to manufacture, test and deliver a Moon GNSS (global navigation satellite system) module.
Finnish satellite sends 75GHz signals from space
The W-Cube nanosatellite sent a signal on the high frequency range of 75GHz on 31st August at 16:21 Finnish time. The signal was received by the ground station in Graz, Austria. The satellite, ordered from Finland by the European Space Agency ESA is broadcasting the signal using a radio beacon system developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Germany's Fraunhofer IAF.
CNC machining aerospace parts: what you need to know
The global aerospace industry has been delivering innovative and groundbreaking manufacturing technologies for decades. The demand for machined components has increased exponentially over the years owing to the expansion of technological horizons. ByPeter Jacobs, Senior Director of Marketing at CNC Masters
The new technologies shaping the world around us
Goodwood has launched its Future Lab podcast brought to you by Randox and the Goodwood Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard (8-11thJuly), home of the Future Lab live exhibition. The podcast, produced bythe UK’s largest independent podcastand audio producer,Somethin’ Else, willspotlight the people tackling the biggest problems facing planet earth and pushing humanity to achieve things we’ve never seen before.
Materials that could bring life to Mars
Philip K. Dick’s 1964 science fiction novel,Martian Time-Slip, imagined a human colony on Mars reliant on waterways, allotments and robots. Today, such quaint sci-fi concepts are actual scientific possibilities now that we better understand the resources that are available on the red planet. Here, Samir Jaber, engineering content writer atMatmatch, examines how materials testing could make or break humanity’s future on Mars.
Alphabet again exits drones: others again jump in
In 2017, after four years of setbacks and crashes, Alphabet shut its project flying solar-powered fixed-wing drones in the upper atmosphere to beam the internet to those cut-off. Facebook then exited its similar project, but the Chinese aerospace industry, Airbus, Boeing, and NASA are progressing them very well.