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KBR Helps NASA Forge Future of Space Travel with Trailblazing Twins Study

June 10th, 2019 Posted in News

10 June 2019 – KBR (NYSE: KBR), is proud to be part of the groundbreaking NASA Twins Study, whose newly published findings will help prepare humans for long-term space travel and propel NASA closer to its recently announced goal of sustaining a pe...

Copernicus Climate Data Store awarded with the EMS Technology Achievement Award 2019

June 6th, 2019 Posted in News

6 June 2019 – The European Meteorological Society has chosen the Climate Data Store to receive the EMS Technology Achievement Award 2019. Telespazio VEGA UK (a Leonardo and Thales company) is the prime company involved in the development of the CD...

UK entrepreneurs invited to help shape future of Space in international competition

June 6th, 2019 Posted in News

6 June 2019 – The call is out for aspiring entrepreneurs across the UK to enter into an international space competition, with the opportunity to win thousands of pounds in cash and business support for their innovative idea. The Galileo Masters c...

Leading the New Space Age: Government backs ambitious plans for the UK in space

June 4th, 2019 Posted in News

Up to £20m could be made available from national and local government, subject to business case, for Spaceport Cornwall and Virgin Orbit as part of the Industrial Strategy spaceflight programme – LaunchUK UK Space Agency to work with the United St...

UK and USA join forces to launch ‘space weather’ service

June 4th, 2019 Posted in News

4 June 2019 – The UK will develop a new instrument for use on space weather monitoring spacecraft to observe the solar wind, in order to protect astronauts, satellites and ground infrastructure. The Sun is always emitting magnetised plasma called ...

TechDemoSat-1 on-board camera captures drag sail deployment

May 31st, 2019 Posted in News

31 May 2019 – Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has released an image showing the successful deployment of the de-orbit drag sail on-board TechDemoSat-1. The deployment of the Icarus-1 drag sail, which was supplied by Cranfield University, ma...

Airbus wins three satellite deal from Inmarsat for revolutionary spacecraft

May 30th, 2019 Posted in News

Featuring on board processing and active antennas, the three Ka-band spacecraft will be able to adjust their coverage, capacity and frequency. They will deliver power and bandwidth dynamically in real-time to adapt to Inmarsat’s requirements to pr...

New SpaceFibre standard provides very high speed data transfer onboard spacecraft

May 29th, 2019 Posted in News

29 May 2019 – For the past decade, STAR-Dundee has been leading the development of the next generation of SpaceWire technology: SpaceFibre. SpaceFibre is a high-performance, high-reliability, high-availability network technology for use onboard sp...