PRESS RELEASE: June 2020 – AmbaSat Receives Funding for New Spacecraft Development
June 2020: AmbaSat Ltd, based in North Yorkshire, UK receives 40% PAPI (Product And Process Innovation) grant to build new spacecraft. PAPI is managed by the University of York and part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund. Martin Platt, AmbaSat Ltd Co-Founder and CEO says “The PAPI grant enables us to rapidly accelerate our growth […]
Skyrora Webinar – June 3rd
AmbaSat Co-Founder Martin Platt will be on the panel at Skyrora’s next Webinar event which is scheduled for June 3rd at 15:00 BST. The topic will be ‘Space Innovation and Environmental Responsibility’. Come along and join the webinar. Register for the event at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/space-today-innovation-and-environmental-responsibility-tickets-106930269314?aff=ebdssbeac
AmbaSat-1 Production Line Assembly STARTS
NEWS – 27th May 2020 – AmbaSat-1 Low Earth Orbit Satellites are now on the assembly production line here in the UK. Thank you to everyone at Mowden Controls for all their hard work in getting us into their production schedule. ASSEMBLED AmbaSat-1s are now coming off the production line!
AmbaSat bootloaders installed on ATMEGA Chips
Today we’ve been loading the AmbaSat bootloader onto the ATMEGA328 chips in readiness for our assembly partner (Mowden) who will be building the assembled versions of AmbaSat-1 later this week. A few pictures from the process. We had a lunch break and a bite to eat. Couldn’t find any fish to go with the chips […]
Backer Update 23rd May – Kickstarter & Indiegogo
Hi all, As we posted recently on the AmbaSat blog, like most businesses, Covid-19 has impacted our operations and meant that our staff levels have been reduced. For a while now there has been just two of us allowed in the office, with access limited to only one day per week. However, there is now […]
AmbaSat Job – Trainee Space Satellite Engineer
https://www.indeedjobs.com/ambasat-ltd/ We are seeking a Trainee Space Satellite Engineer to join the team at AmbaSat. If you know of someone who may be interested, please see the job post details below. Trainee Engineer required for a career in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) space satellite development, including embedded software and hardware. Also prototype manufacturing and assembly. […]
Shipping and Kit Assembly
The covid-19 lockdown has eased a little this week in the UK so we’ve been able to get some more time on assembling and shipping AmbaSat-1 Satellite kits. This latest batch of kits contain Sensor 03s – the low power gas, pressure, temperature & humidity sensor BME680. We’re currently completing the example code for this […]
AmbaSat-1 Kit Assembly, 1st May
AmbaSat-1 Head Quarters, Northallerton. 1st May 2020. A fresh supply of components arrived this week so we’ve been busy putting together another batch of kits. These kits are for the Sensor 02 & 04 groups. We’re still short-staffed at the moment due to the coronavirus situation but starting to see some light at the end […]
Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen Visits School Aiming to be First in UK to Launch Satellites
(Note. this article contains details and pictures from before the covid shutdown) A team of pupils at Egglescliffe School have welcomed Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen to show him their work to become the first school in the UK to launch satellites into low orbit. Mayor Visits School Aiming to be First in UK to […]
Component Parts Delivery – Update
The RFM95 transceiver has been the major AmbaSat-1 part in short supply but we just received some good news from our assembly partner Mowden: Final parts delivery for the ASSEMBLED version of the AmbaSat-1 Satellite are expected by the end of April. Yay! At this moment we are still looking at an end of May […]
