Archive : 20 June 2015 год

Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) is to work with Canadian Earth observation company UrtheCast on the forthcoming 16 satellite Generation-3 constellation. The moves comes follows several months of close co-operation between the two teams to design a high performance low earth orbiting platform.

SSTL will design and build the satellite platforms, as well as the high resolution optical imagers. Patrick Wood, SSTL's group managing director, said: "The dual optical/radar constellation created by UrtheCast will be a game changer for the Earth Observation market. SSTL is ideally placed to design and build the UrtheCast satellites, having made a substantial investment in new automated production facilities geared to constellation manufacture."

NovaSAR, being built by SSTL under a UK Government grant, is said to provide a new benchmark in affordability and performance for responsive spaceborne radar.

Wade Larson, UrtheCast's president, said: "Of significance is the experience gained by SSTL through the design and build of NovaSAR, which has established it as the world leader in affordable synthetic aperture radar (SAR) solutions and which makes it uniquely qualified to manufacture UrtheCast's cutting edge dual band SAR design. SAR will be a key component of our constellation."

Author
Graham Pitcher

Source:  www.newelectronics.co.uk

Keysight is to pay about £388million in cash to Anite, the UK based supplier of test and measurement solutions that span the design and validation of chipsets, mobile devices and network equipment. The 500 employee company, established in 1973 as Cray Electronics, turned over £49m in the last six months of 2014.

The 500 employee company, established in 1973 as Cray Electronics, turned over £49m in the last six months of 2014.

"As a leading supplier of software solutions for wireless research and development, Anite is aligned with Keysight's strategy to grow in wireless and increase our software offerings," said Ron Nersesian, Keysight president and CEO.

Clay Brendish, Anite's chairman, added: "The combination of Anite and Keysight has strong strategic logic, with Anite's software expertise strongly complementing Keysight's hardware expertise. Our market has been characterised by ongoing customer consolidation, increasing the importance of scale and strength to support customers around the globe and invest in major research and development programmes across the technology cycle. Keysight brings the scale and financial resources to continue to develop Anite's business."

Keysight's strategic priorities include growing revenues from software sales and expanding its offerings in support of wireless technologies. Acquiring Anite will help it to achieve these goals.

Keysight says it will maintain the Anite brand after the acquisition and will set up Anite's current headquarters in Fleet as the head office for Keysight's worldwide Wireless device and infrastructure test business.

Author
Graham Pitcher

Source:  www.newelectronics.co.uk