Sofant Technologies has achieved a major industry milestone by successfully demonstrating a fully functioning Ka band transmit array using its proprietary RF MEMS beamforming IC.

Airframe Designs has promoted Chris Fleet to a newly created Operations Director role as part of its plans to expand its specialist engineering and manufacturing services to the global aviation, defence and space sectors.

ALL.SPACE has formed a strategic partnership with Aalyria to advance autonomous, fully interoperable communications across multiple domains, specifically designed for defence scenarios where connectivity must survive beyond legacy single link satcom solutions.

British rocket and space technology company Skyrora has announced its participation as a prime contractor in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) General Support Technology Programme (GSTP), to develop Tanbium, a breakthrough alloy set to revolutionise rocket engine production with 3D printing.

An international team of researchers, including astronomers at the University of Surrey, has shed light on a decades-long debate about why galaxies rotate faster than expected and whether this behaviour is caused by unseen dark matter or a breakdown of gravity on cosmic scales.

SpainSat NG-II, the second Airbus-built new generation secure communications satellite for Spain, has been successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center, in the US.