18 June 2019
Israeli space tech firm hiSky expands to the UK
...) based in London and with an R&D centre at Harwell to develop a satellite communications network management system (NMS)... hiSky to develop cutting-edge space telecoms technology at the Harwell Space Cluster, which is growing fast and already home to...
02 October 2018
New technique could provide fresh insights into how the Moon was formed
... changes are ‘locked in’ to the mineral, but the X-ray speckle imaging technique, developed at Diamond Light Source, Harwell, UK, can ‘unlock’ this information by producing 3D images which are then mapped to reveal the history of individual crystals...
16 January 2020
World premier: first plant-powered IoT sensor sends signal to space
The first-ever plant-powered sensor has successfully transmitted to a satellite in space. The pilot service, using plants as the energy source, has been developed by Plant-e and Lacuna Space. Because the sensor doesn't need batteries, due to the ...
November 2018
Connecting and collaborating for innovation
...it can assist in the recovery pathway of stroke patients. Oxford Nanopore Technologies, a company that is growing rapidly on the Harwell Campus, has developed a portable gene sequencing device that has been trialled on the International Space Station...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... simulants on Earth that could be used for these purposes? Try Harwell in Oxfordshire, UK, where ESA’s Sample Analogue Curation Facility (SACF... collection has been located at the SACF at the Harwell Campus, and its samples are available for loan to...
October 2015
Growing space businesses in the UK: from incubation centres to public funding
... commitment has been a major driver for the European Space Agency to establish a centre in the UK. It’s located in Harwell, Oxfordshire – a site that is growing rapidly in what seems to be a mutually-supportive manner5. Regular updates and reviews...
