United States, February 3, 2025 - Advanced Navigation, a world leader in APNT and autonomous systems, has received grant funding from the Australian Space Agency. The Moon to Mars Initiative Grant will accelerate the development of a space-graded high-shock Inertial Navigation System (INS) to withstand the extreme conditions of a rocket launch.
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AFRL awards Packet Digital $7.2M contract to build space power solutions
Packet Digital will leverage its successful power solution to support CubeSats and SmallSats
FARGO, N.D. — Packet Digital is excited to announce it has been awarded an additional $7.2 million as part of its contract with the Air Force Research Lab to build space power solutions. After successfully completing an initial $8-million contract with AFRL in which Packet Digital built a high-powered SmallSat power converter with a 98% efficiency, the follow-on contract was awarded. Now, Packet Digital will leverage that technology and scale for both SmallSat and CubeSat power systems for future space launches.
Future of Air & Space
Future of Air & Space presented by National Grid highlights innovation in the air and space industry in Upstate New York. This event brings together professionals from established companies, investors, and dealmakers together with entrepreneurs.
Cutting-edge innovation is happening in Upstate NY in UAS and uncrewed systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), edge & quantum computing, and their applications. Attendees will learn about tech, working with the Department of Defense, and make connections with investors, entrepreneurs, and industry professionals. Together, this event facilitates discovering synergies for longer-term business relationships.
This exclusive aerospace and defense investor event includes:
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Wednesday, April 3,2022 to Friday April 5, 2023
Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
National Harbor, Maryland
AeroVironment’s new project slated to fly over Mars
Monrovia, California-based AeroVironment, which has built everything from a hummingbird-sized drone to high-flying solar aircraft, has built components for a new drone helicopter intended to fly much further afield: across the surface of Mars.
AV is working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena to build the helicopter recently selected by the Mars Exploration Program, which is planned to fly across the Red Planet in less than three years.
“AeroVironment’s deep, rich and diverse history of innovation, combined with our experience with near-space aircraft like Pathfinder and Helios make us uniquely suited to collaborate with NASA and JPL on this historic, interplanetary venture,” says Wahid Nawabi, AeroVironment’s president and CEO.
From Unmanned Systems magazine: NASA plan to refuel satellites in space could lead to new industry
Satellites are expensive. They are expensive to develop, expensive to launch, and, should they run out of fuel, expensive because they are not designed to be refueled.
NASA wants to change that. The aerospace agency has been working for years on robotic technology that could refuel and relocate satellites, extending their services lives, cutting down on space junk and saving money in the process.
Eventually it could lead to more capable spacecraft and a new line of business for commercial space companies.
Inside the September 2017 issue of Unmanned Systems
The September 2017 issue of Unmanned Systems looks at Army plans for robotics, NASA plans to use robotics to refuel satellites in space, and how businesses, artists and others are using artificial intelligence to improve their products and services.
