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BT and Serco among bidders competing to run Britain’s unfortunately named Skynet military satellite system • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- June 18, 2020
The UK Ministry of Defence has shortlisted BT, Serco, Babcock and Airbus in the bidding for its £6bn Skynet satellite project. Whoever wins the MoD’s six-year Skynet 6 Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract will find themselves operating and maintaining Britain’s military satellites – including the vital changeover phase in 2025 when the old spacecraft are
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Japan to test self-destructing satellite to shrink space junk with string and an inanimate carbon blob • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- June 9, 2020
Japan’s space agency (JAXA) has announced plans to test a self-destructing satellite in the hope of commercialising the technology so the proliferating fleet of low-orbit kit doesn’t become junk. The tech involved was developed with Japanese sat-killer startup ALE Co. and sounds simple: satellites will be equipped with a carbon nanotube cathode and an electrodynamic
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Satellite images show items left behind at Apollo 11 moon landing site 50 years later 0
- BUSINESS
- July 22, 2019
Fifty years on, remnants from the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing are still visible on the moon’s surface, essentially frozen in time. Without the threat of wind and water erosion we’re used to on earth, even the footprints left behind by the Apollo 11 astronauts are believed to still be cemented into the moon’s surface.
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Quantum, the world’s first ‘software-defined satellite’, moves a step closer to commission 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- February 6, 2019
Quantum satellite will be capable of being completely reprogrammed in orbit. Image: Airbus The UK scientists have completed their part in the construction of the novel Quantum satellite, which is claimed will be the first fully reprogrammable, ‘software-defined’ spacecraft. This communications satellite has been commissioned by Eutelsat and is being built by Airbus and its subsidiary
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