(9 February 2021 – SWISSto12) SWISSto12 has been selected by Fleet Space Technologies, an Australian nanosatellite manufacturer, to deliver the first ever additively manufactured all-metal patch antennas for Fleet Space’s C4 and C5 satellites. The contract will include the manufacturing with SWISSto12’s patented and space qualified additive manufacturing processes specially optimized for RF applications. Fleet Space has chosen SWISSto12 because ...
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Cosmic Opportunities №18
Though winter makes you be longer in a warm house with family members and relatives, however, that is definitely not a reason to postpone your plans. According to our observation, this year began really active and we glad to tell about those who already change their lives. Jonathan Debilde – 01’21 has left the “AllSource Analysis”, he was Vice President ...
Read More »Outlier Ventures blockchain trends report 2021: Ethereum still top, NFT and metaverse projects praised
Ethereum remains the most actively developed blockchain protocol, followed by Cardano and Bitcoin – while multi-chain protocols are seeing significant interest and uptick. This is the key finding from the annual blockchain developer trends report from Outlier Ventures. The report, which looked to perform an ‘in-depth technical analysis’ of the codebases of top projects in blockchain and crypto, is touted ...
Read More »Nearby Ancient Dwarf Galaxies Have a Surprising Amount of Dark Matter
Around the Milky Way, there are literally dozens of dwarf galaxies that continue to be slowly absorbed into our own. These galaxies are a major source of interest for astronomers because they can teach us a great deal about cosmic evolution, like how smaller galaxies merged over time to create larger structures. Since they are thought to be relics of ...
Read More »Why humans started being friendly and tolerant?
Why do we have friends? Of course, we can come up with many answers – favours, emotional support, adventures. But why do humans have friends in general – why did we evolve to need them? Scientists at the University of York think that the leading force between our initial friendliness was environmental pressures. Humans had to learn to be friendly ...
Read More »Security to the fore as firms and consumers go digital
Almost two thirds of consumers who took part in the study said they would prefer to use contactless as much, if not more, after the pandemic Almost half of Irish small businesses surveyed by payments company Visa said they were now offering contactless payments options to their customers for the first time. That is up from 15% of firms who ...
Read More »Photos: Sixty more Starlinks rocket through moonlit sky over Cape Canaveral
With another SpaceX rocket poised for launch just a few miles away, a Falcon 9 launcher soared through a moonlit sky over Cape Canaveral on Feb. 4 carrying 60 more Starlink internet satellites into orbit. These photos show the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket taking off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 1:19 a.m. EST (0619 ...
Read More »Room With A View: Remembering STS-130 and the Cupola, OTD in 2010
Bob Behnken’s last flight in February 2010 also sustained a weather delay. Photo Credit: Mike Killian Photography When Expedition 57/58 astronaut Anne McClain boarded the International Space Station (ISS) in December 2018, she quickly found what she described as “my new favorite spot”. That spot was the multi-windowed cupola, which sits affixed to the Earth-facing (or “nadir”) port of Tranquility Node-3 ...
Read More »What SEC Crackdown? Japanese Giant SBI Starts Offering XRP Lending
Source: Adobe/Nasibli The bond between the Japanese securities and crypto giant SBI and Ripple remains as strong as ever – with the former’s crypto exchange extending its crypto lending offerings to XRP. SBI launched crypto lending for bitcoin (BTC) late last year for customers of its wholly owned SBI VC Trade crypto trading platform as part of its Lending ...
Read More »Evinced Accesses $17M Series A For Accessibility
Palo Alto, California-based Evinced landed a $17 million Series A to help push its accessibility software into the market. The round was co-led by M12, BGV and Capital One Ventures, with seed investor Engineering Capital also participating. The company has raised just under $20 million since being founded in 2018. Evinced’s accessibility software helps companies analyze their digital assets — ...
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