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Eutelsat Communications and Facebook have announced they are partnering on a recent initiative that will leverage satellite technologies to get more Africans online. Under a multi-year agreement with Spacecom, the two companies will utilise the entire broadband payload on the future AMOS-6 satellite and will build a dedicated system comprising satellite capacity, gateways and terminals.

Harwin is showcasing two new interconnect products for the first time at the world’s largest defence exhibition, DSEI. Visitors to the Harwin stand S4-166 can see Harwin’s Datamate coaxial connector and also have a preview of the forthcoming M300 10-position high density power connector series to be launched at the beginning of October.

Computer Simulation Technology (CST) announces that it has acquired all intellectual property of the CoupleFil software developed by InnoDev. CoupleFil is a synthesis tool for designing cross-coupled bandpass filters and will complement and extend CST’s workflows for simulating and optimising filters.

In implementing Long Term Evolution, or 4G LTE networks, communications operators have achieved the fastest ever rollout of a network standard. Its popularity is partially explained by our hunger for bandwidth, particularly in a world where the growth in data traffic is accelerating, driven by our thirst for streaming video from YouTube, IPTV, Netflix and others. In fact, video is now the largest consumer of video bandwidth. It's also interesting...

Harwinannounces a range of standard layout, multiport coaxial Datamate connectors with 6GHz, 50Ω contacts, suitable for RG178 cables in high reliability applications. The ganged connectors are available from stock with two, four, six or eight contacts.

Designed for sending and receiving radio signals, Pasternack has introduced a line of bi-directional amplifiers. They are designed for use in applications such as UAVs, unmanned ground vehicles, L and S band radar, military radio, commercial air traffic control, weather and earth observation, satellites and high gain driver power amplifiers.

A piece of tape can only be used a few times before the adhesion wears off and it can no longer hold two surfaces together. But researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, are working on the ultimate system of stickiness, inspired by geckos. This article's main image shows an artist's conception of a future robot that could use its "gecko" feet to carry out, for example, ISS maintenance.

Microsemi has announced that its industry-leading space solutions are onboard NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. The Microsemi products onboard include power supplies, electromechanical latching relays, several JANS class diode and transistor discretes, and RTSX-SU FPGAs which are used in imaging cameras providing high-resolution images, as well as in the comms, avionics and payload systems.

A speed-optimised production tester - the R&S SMBV100A vector signal generator from Rohde & Schwarz, is equipped with the R&S SMBV-P101 package. During production testing of modules and receivers for satellite-based communications, the basic GNSS signal reception and the connection between the antenna and GNSS chipset need to be checked.

The PHR series and TNPS series space qualified resistors from Vishay are now ready for shipment from TTI in Europe. The devices benefit from very high reliability and proven thin film technology. PHR series thin film wrap around resistors are space level ESA qualified according to ESCC4001/023 and offer a wide operating temperature range from -55°C up to +155°C.