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Airbus Defense and Space has been awarded a contract from DARPA to develop a satellite bus for the Blackjack program. Blackjack aims to demonstrate the benefits for the military by adopting global LEO satellite constellations and mesh networks.

QuadSAT announced it has closed its £700,000 seed round, led by the Danish Growth Fund, VF with participation from Seraphim Capital and existing investors. 

There is a steady increase globally in requirements for new defense systems embodying RF modules.

Test and measurement specialist Rohde & Schwarz, telecommunications service provider China Mobile and mobile platform provider MediaTek have successfully carried out a technical trial of a 5G prototype terminal.

Antenova Ltd. has developed a new surface-mount positioning antenna that achieves an extraordinary level of accuracy in the GNSS bands: to within cm. The Raptor antenna uses the L2, 1200 MHz satellite bands, which recently became available for civilian use.

As part of the 5G Expert Days at the Rohde & Schwarz headquarters in Munich, Germany, the three companies have planned, implemented and measured an indoor 5G NR network.

Raytheon has won a $692.9 million U.S. Army contract to produce Sweden's Patriot™ Integrated Air and Missile Defense System including spare parts, support and training.

HENSOLDT has delivered the second active antenna for the Captor-E radar system. Ready for series production, manufacturing the active electronically scanned array (AESA) will begin at the HENSOLDT factory in Ulm, Germany, with delivery of the first radar system planned by mid-2019.