Our last conference in May is Data Systems in Aerospace (DASIA) from the 29th-31st of May in Oxford, UK.

On May 29th, our CTO, Steve Parkes, will be presenting ‘A Wideband Spectrometer in the Microsemi RTG4 FPGA‘ at 16:00 in Room B and then ‘SpaceFibre Image Sensor and Data Processing Units’ at 16:30 in Room A.

On May the 30th, Steve will present a paper on PANGU ‘PANGU V4: A Software tool for testing vision-based guidence and navigation systems for in-orbit, entry descent and landing and surface mobility operations’ at 9:00 in Room A.

STAR-Dundee will also have a table in the exhibition hall where we will have a demonstration of PANGU.

See the full programme at the Data Systems in Aerospace (DASIA) website.

STAR-Dundee will be exhibiting at the Single Event Effects (SEE) Symposium & Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices (MAPLD) Workshop in San Diego on 21-24 May.

Visit our Stand to see the first demos of our new products Link Analyser Mk3, STAR Fire Mk3 and SpaceWire Gigabit Ethernet (GbE Brick) which will soon be relased for sale.

Our CTO, Steve Parkes, will also present on the topic ‘A High Availability, High Reliability SpaceVPX System’ on Wednesday 23rd of May. See the full programme on the Single Event Effects (SEE) Symposium & Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices (MAPLD) website.

Featured Image: Our new products: Link Analyser Mk3, STAR Fire Mk3 and SpaceWire Gigabit Ethernet (GbE Brick).

Interested in Space Technology?

Graduated from an Electronic Engineering degree or similar course?

Then the Optical Communication and Image Processing for Space Applications (OCIPSA) engineering funded studentship with STAR-Dundee, The University of Dundee, Heriot-Watt University and EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Applied Photonics is for you!

The OCIPSA project will research and develop optical communication technology and image processing technology for space applications. It will explore the use of fibre optics in high-availability SpaceFibre networks, considering lane and link redundancy to provide the high reliability and high availability capabilities required on-board a spacecraft. Experimentation is expected to include the design (in VHDL for FPGAs) of digital communication protocol engines driving fibre optics, the construction of fault tolerant networks, the integration of an image sensor and image processing application, and the overall evaluation of the performance of the fibre optic network in the event of transient, persistent and permanent lane and link failures.

Find out more here: https://www.cdtphotonics.hw.ac.uk/vacancy/2017/optical-communication-and-image-processing-space-applications-ocipsa 

Find out how to apply here: https://www.cdtphotonics.hw.ac.uk/apply.html 

The featured image shows the Crab Nebula in bright neon colours. The unusual image was produced by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to X-rays. Find out more here: http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages Copyright: NASA, ESA, G. Dubner (IAFE, CONICET-University of Buenos Aires) et al.; A. Loll et al.; T. Temim et al.; F. Seward et al.; VLA/NRAO/AUI/NSF; Chandra/CXC; Spitzer/JPL-Caltech; XMM-Newton/ESA; and Hubble/STScI, CC BY 4.0

Saturday night saw some of Tayside and Fife’s top business talent all in one marquee for the Courier Business Awards 2017.

STAR-Dundee were finalists in three award categories; Design and Innovation Business of the Year, Science and Technology Business of the Year and Enterprise in Education.

We had reason to celebrate right from the beginning as the Design and Innovation Business of the Year was one of the first to be announced and we were delighted to find out that we had won!

Ten STAR-Dundee employees attended to represent the wider team. We enjoyed celebrating STAR-Dundee’s achievements and watching our new CEO Dr Stuart Mills collect the award.

We would like to congratulate fellow spinout from the University of Dundee, Exscientia, on winning Science & Technology Business of the year and being highly commended in the Design and Innovation Business of the year category.

We would also like to congratulate another spinout from the University of Dundee My Diabetes My Way for winning the Enterprise in Education award which was sponsored by Dundee Research and Innovation Services.

The evening highlighted the amazing business community right here in Dundee, which STAR-Dundee is proud to be part of. Having recently transitioned to an employee owned company STAR-Dundee has secured it’s future in the City.

A huge congratulations to all of the finalists and winners. See The Courier today to read more about the evening.

You can also see our tweets from the event here: @STAR_Dundee