MBRYONICS Announces Further Expansion in Its Customer Base and Manufacturing Facilities to Meet Rapidly Growing Demand
GALWAY, Ireland & SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MBRYONICS has been expanding its partner and customer ecosystem and has recently been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for in-orbit demonstration activities in a team led by Kepler Communications. The €18.6M award is under Element 3 of the High-throughput Optical Network (HydRON) program, a project under ESA’s Optical […]
Space-tech Mbryonics plans new production facility in Shannon
Mbryonics has been tapped for the final leg of an ESA space communication project. Galway space-tech Mbryonics is building out a second manufacturing facility in Shannon to keep up with a growing demand for its services. The new 40,000 sq ft facility called Photon-2 will produce thousands of optical terminals by 2027, the company said. […]
MBRYONICS Secures European Space Agency’s HydRON Element 3 Contract
MBRYONICS has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for in-orbit demonstration activities by a team led by Kepler Communications, under Element 3 of the High-throughput Optical Network (HydRON) program. HydRON is a project under ESA’s Optical and Quantum Communications – ScyLight program, within the Agency’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES). In collaboration […]
Optical terminals still a bottleneck in Pentagon’s proliferated constellation
ARLINGTON, Va. — When 21 Lockheed Martin satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 1 launched Oct. 15, each carried three laser communication terminals instead of the planned four, reflecting a shortfall in the supply of optical crosslink hardware. The satellites rely on optical communications terminals, or OCTs, to exchange data via […]
Companies Hope Lasers Can Replace Radio for Space-to-Ground Comms
For decades, satellites have been beaming data from Earth to space and back via radio waves. But with the growing number of spacecraft in orbit and the increasing quantities of data beaming back to Earth, radio spectrum is hitting its physical limits. For about a decade, companies and research institutions have been working on higher-bandwidth, […]
Lauren Jaffart – ESA – Director Experience
Lauren Jaffart: “Today I joined MBRYONICS, a leader in optical communications in Ireland, where I witnessed how advanced photonics technologies are moving from innovation to industrial scale – particularly through the team’s Photon-1 facility, which builds on decades of collaboration with ESA and Ireland’s ESA delegation. Combining the design, manufacturing, and testing of hundreds […]
Women Empowering Women as LEO Galway and Network Galway collaborate for International Women’s Day in Salthill
Women Empowering Women as LEO Galway and Network Galway collaborate for International Women’s Day in Salthill The Local Enterprise Office (LEO ) Galway and Network Ireland Galway will collaborate to host an inspiring and energising celebration of Galway businesswomen in the Salthill Hotel on Friday, March 6th. The event, taking place to mark International Women’s […]
Ireland’s first ESA Phi-Lab to be based in Mullingar
Ireland’s first ESA Phi-Lab to be based in Mullingar Ireland’s first European Space Agency Phi-Lab will be headquartered at Irish Manufacturing Research in Mullingar, Co Westmeath. The six-year pioneering programme is designed to drive innovation in space technologies within companies in Ireland. Phi-Lab Ireland will fund cutting-edge research from materials discovery and testing, to the […]
Mbryonics Announces the Creation of 125 jobs in Galway to Power ‘Internet in Space’
Pictured (l-r) David Mackey CTO and Co-Founder MBRYONICS, Peter Burke Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Trade, Ruth Mackey CSO/COO and Co-Founder MBRYONICS and Kevin Sherry Director Enterprise Ireland. MBRYONICS, a Galway-based leader in photonic satellite optical communication networks, has opened its new Photon-1 volume manufacturing facility in Dangan and announced the creation of 125 new […]
Giant steps: Ireland’s space sector fuelled for lift-off
A growing group of innovative companies, from multinationals to startups, are propelling Ireland’s advance into a previously uncharted market: space Since the beginning of the last decade, Irish companies’ involvement in the space sector has risen by more than 300%. This rapid ascent was achieved from a solid launchpad: Ireland draws upon a 40-year […]