Tag: Aerospace & Defense
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BAE Systems Successfully Completes First Flight of its Uncrewed Satellite Aerial System
British engineers have successfully completed a stratospheric flight trial of BAE Systems’ High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS) Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) – PHASA-35. Over a 24-hour period, PHASA-35 soared to more than 66,000 feet, reaching the stratosphere, before landing successfully. The trial, completed last month in New Mexico in the USA, allowed engineers to assess the…
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SpacePath Awarded Defense Contract to Deliver Tropospheric Scatter Amplifiers
SpacePath Communications (‘SpacePath’), a dedicated, European-based SATCOM amplifier manufacturer and equipment supplier, has been awarded an order by a major, international defense organization for its tropospheric scatter (troposcatter) amplifiers. Allowing long-range, point-to-point communications, troposcatter systems provide mobile, microwave communication beyond the horizon when tactical SATCOM-based command/control information is unavailable. SpacePath’s 1 kW troposcatter amplifiers feature best-in-class…
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Lockheed Martin Realigns its Space Business to Boost Efficiency
The Space business area within Lockheed Martin announced upcoming changes in order to promote greater effectiveness in delivering on customer missions, support growth and innovation, and create stronger collaboration with customers, suppliers and partners. The realignment follows the recent establishment of Lockheed Martin Space’s Ignite organization, an innovation hub for rapid capability development. “With an…
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EBAD Successfully Deployes Experimental Payload from D-Orbit’s ION Satellite Carrier
Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense (EBAD) has successfully deployed an experimental payload with its Payload Release Ring (PRR) spacecraft separation system in D-Orbit’s ION Satellite Carrier. The data gathered from this experiment ensures EBAD’s new spacecraft dispensing products carry the same reliability that the industry is accustomed to with its heritage NEA® release mechanism. The experiment…
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Airbus to Provide Satellite Communications for Belgian Armed Forces
Airbus has signed a contract with the Belgian Ministry of Defence to provide tactical satellite communications services for a 15-year period. The Armed Forces will utilise channels of the Airbus UHF (Ultra High Frequency) military communications hosted payload on board a commercial telecommunications satellite manufactured by Airbus. “With this new UHF payload, Airbus will be able to offer a new UHF communications…
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Skyservice Receives Approvals to Integrate Satcom Direct’s Ku-Band Antenna into its Aircrafts
Skyservice Business Aviation (“Skyservice”), a North American company involved in business aviation, announced that it has received Transport Canada (TCCA), Federal Aviation Association (FAA), and European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) supplemental type certification (STC) approval for the integration of Satcom Direct Plane Simple Ku-band Tail Mounted Antenna (TMA) systems. The newly certified integration is…
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Emcore Develops Military Standard Light Vehicle GPS Navigation Solution with Multiple Displays
Emcore, a provider of advanced mixed-signal products that serve the aerospace & defense, communications, and sensing markets, has developed TACNAV Light/GPS vehicle navigation system for military and defense applications. It is an accurate and affordable solution that delivers a powerful suite of features that brings a new level of flexibility, reliability, and performance to light…
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Emcore Showcases Industry’s Broadest Product Portfolios at ION GNSS+
EMCORE Corporation, a provider of advanced mixed-signal products that serve the aerospace & defense, communications, and sensing markets, announced today that EMCORE’s inertial navigation team will be joined for the first time by the inertial navigation team that EMCORE recently acquired from KVH Industries, Inc. at the Institute of Navigation’s (ION) GNSS+ Conference, September 21-22…
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IARPA Selects Teams to Revolutionize Electrically Small Antennas
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the research and development arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announced the start of a multi-year research effort to significantly boost the performance of electrically small antennas (ESAs)—or antennas that are much smaller than the wavelength of signals they send and receive. Shrinking the…
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NASA Selects SiFive to Provide Core CPU for HPSC Processor
SiFive, the founder and leader of RISC-V computing, announced that it has been selected by NASA to provide the core CPU for NASA’s next-generation High-Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) processor. HPSC is expected to be used in virtually every future space mission, from planetary exploration to lunar and Mars surface missions. The HPSC will utilize an…