Russia agrees life extension for International Space Station

Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, has confirmed it will support continued operations until the end of 2028 for the International Space Station (ISS). The United States, Japan, Canada, and the participating countries of the ESA (European Space Agency) had already intended to support operations through to 2030, but the commitment of Russia to extend its life, ...

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Alphawave to suspend shares

Alphawave is to suspend its shares on the LSE from next Tuesday  after its shares fell 20% this morning following an admission that KPMG had delayed issuing its accounts. It is the second time the company has delayed issuing its accounts, the first time was last April. The company has a market cap of around ...

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DSL selects inaugural winner of Design Academy 2023 STEM competition

Datasound Laboratories Ltd (DSL) has announced the winner of its inaugural Design Academy 2023 award, a competition run in local schools and colleges to identify young engineering excellence, promote STEM and encourage a new generation of design engineers. The Letchworth-based electronic design consultancy selected Jemima Hewitt, of St Francis’ College, as the winner. She was ...

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PCIM: 1.2kV half-bridge driver ICs

Infineon Technologies is aiming at 1,200V 10kW loads with a family of half-bridge gate drivers for IGBTs and silicon carbide mosfets. Called the 2ED132xS12x family, they are ruggedised by protection against negative voltage transient, shoot-through and automatic (±5%) over-current shut-down, and have under-voltage lock-out. Over-current detection to output shut-down, can be as short at 1μs. ...

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Experimental process makes much of a wind turbine blade recyclable

Wind turbine blades can be recycled, at least partially, accoriding to researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark. The chemical process disassembles epoxy composite, releasing intact glass fibres and extracting one of the chemical component of the resin. Both are as good as new materials, according to the university, which added that the process could also ...

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FD-SoI FPGAs get PCIe and LPDDR4 interfacing

Lattice Semiconductor is aiming at system control with a family of FPGAs that includes PCIe Gen 2 interfacing and embedded security. MachXO5T-NX, as they are called, are suited to “a set of control function designs for enterprise networking, machine vision and industrial IoT”, it said. They are built using the company’s FDSoI process (image right), ...

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Space Foundation celebrates Symposium 2023, calls for Space as Critical Infrastructure

The Space Symposium 2023, which has completed in Colorado Springs, featured a celebration of the Webb Space Telescope and the progress of the Orion spacecraft and Artemis program, along with calls for for the U.S. government to declare space as a critical infrastructure. Rich Cooper, VP of Strategic Communications at Space Foundation, which runs the ...

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