Cubic Corporation has partnered with The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) College of Nursing to test an emergency ventilator device the company is developing to combat ventilator shortages from the COVID-19 pandemic.  Cubic's Huntsville operation is the main development and manufacturing facility for its GATR inflatable satellite antenna (ISA). The company said in a…

Virgin Orbit has developed a new mass-producible bridge ventilator to help in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Virgin Orbit reached out to California Governor Gavin Newsom, who connected the company with the Bridge Ventilator Consortium (BVC), led by the University of California Irvine (UCI) and the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). In…

Skyrora, a United Kingdom-based smallsat launch company, has restructured its manufacturing division to produce face visors and hand sanitizer to combat coronavirus. The company said it has refocused all of its U.K. operations and has invested all human resources and working capital to help tackle Covid-19 in response to the U.K. government’s call for support…

Startup Lynk Global recently hit a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) milestone by sending a message from a satellite directly to a cell phone on Earth — and one of the company’s co-founders says the implications of this technology will surpass 5G.  Lynk’s goal is to provide text messaging via LEO nanosatellites that connect directly to unmodified mobile…