Aerospace & Defence

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division and Stratasys have applied Hexagon’s simulation technology to capture the behaviour of Stratasys’ high-performance, ultra-lightweight Antero reinforced polyetherketoneketone (PEKK) materials and its additive manufacturing processes. These rigorously validated simulations offer Stratasys customers unique insight so they can introduce new sustainable aircraft and spacecraft faster.

Leading industry figures gathered at Space Tech Expo Europe 2022 in Bremen to hail space exploration, the NewSpace movement, and the SmallSat industry.

Renesas has announced that hundreds of its radiation-hardened (rad-hard) integrated circuits (ICs), including over 50 different part numbers, are onboard the Artemis 1 launch that blasted off on November 16.

Gathering a decade of accurate measurement data is a major feat in itself, but to do so on a robot travelling around the surface of an inhospitable planet 140 million miles away is almost unbelievable.

EASii IC and ST Engineering iDirect demonstrated interoperability for European Space Agency (ESA) HTS Free Hopper Project at electronica 2022

EASii IC announces its satellite modem ASIC, EZID211 also known as Oxford-2. The Oxford-2 is aimed at the earth-segment satellite communication market.

NASA launches its Artemis I rocket from its Kennedy Space Centre, commencing a new chapter of lunar exploration. Artemis I is the first integrated test of NASA’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the ground systems at the agency’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

More than 1,100 specialists in space technology gathered in Las Vegas at the end of October for the ASCEND conference of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Spaceflight is in the midst of a transformation from government funded research and national prestige projects into a commercially successful field of business.

Mercury Systems, a specialist in trusted, secure mission-critical technologies for aerospace and defence, introduces a radiation-tolerant version of its 8GB DDR4 memory component that sets a new bar for performance in data-intensive processing applications in space.  

 Members of the space community have gathered in Cornwall to celebrate the upcoming launch from Spaceport Cornwall, the first from British soil.