Space Race: The Top Players In A Market That Could Be Worth $1.4 Trillion By 2030

 Bank of America is out with a guide to the commercial space market and the major companies involved.

The Space Market: Bank of America’s Ronald J. Epstein believes the commercial space market will hit $1.4 trillion by 2030. Epstein cites increased defense spending, growth in satellites, space tourism and resource extraction as ways the industry can grow.

The space market was worth $414.8 billion in 2018, with government spending of $85.5 billion making up 21% of the total.

Bank of America tracks computer science vs engineering aerospace and defense companies and listed 14 of them in the report that had some exposure to the space industry.

The Pure-Play Companies: “Pure play space companies tend to be private, most aerospace and defense companies under our coverage have some exposure to the space industry,” Epstein wrote in a note.

CONNECT Centre launches 'Open Ireland': a €2 million open networking research infrastructure

 ‘Open Ireland’, a €2 million research infrastructure to support advanced experimentation in communications networks, has been launched by CONNECT, the Science Foundation Ireland research centre for future networks, at Trinity College Dublin.

Dr Marco Ruffini, Associate Professor in Optical Network Architectures in the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity, will manage the operation of the infrastructure which will include a dedicated jobs with a computer science degree connection between Trinity College Dublin and Dublin City University, as well as the deployment of macro and small cells to provide radio coverage. Funded primarily by Science Foundation Ireland’s ‘Research Infrastructure Programme’, additional contributions are expected from companies who will collaborate with academic researchers to explore new applications and services.

The testbed will take an end-to-end approach to the network, including wireless, optical and cloud-based research using open interfaces and open source. It will investigate intelligent control plane technology and protocols, and enable 100X scalability, exploring issues such as capacity, latency, availability, energy, and automation.

Telecoms patent wars escalate

The automotive patent wars are heating up following a recent decision of the Mannheim Regional Court in Germany, which held that Daimler had infringed on a Nokia patent for connected car technology. The decision relates specifically to Nokia’s European patent EP2981103.

This case represents one of a number of 3G/4G/5G patents that are part of the Avanci patent pool with which other car makers, including BMW and Volkswagen, have already concluded licences to some degree or another. It has been reported that Daimler’s co-litigants in the proceedings were Continental, Huawei, Robert Bosch, difference between computer science and computer engineering, Valeo/Peiker and Bury, and this case is part of a wider litigation campaign by other members of the Avanci patent pool including Conversant and Sharp.

One of the key issues that Daimler disputes is whether, as a car maker, it is required to obtain a licence from Nokia to use the patented technology itself, or whether it should be the Tier 1 suppliers (in this case Continental) of the connectivity modules that should obtain the licence. This could have something to do with the royalties payable—because patent royalties are typically calculated as a percentage of sales price of the product sold, and so the percentage royalty on a complete car may be somewhere higher in absolute terms than the same percentage of a component part.

China's Evergrande pleads for government support to avoid cash crunch

 Debt-laden China Evergrande Group, the country's second largest property developer, has pleaded for government support to approve a restructuring plan that has languished for four years, warning it faces a cash crunch that could lead to systemic risks, according to people familiar with the matter.

The company, the most indebted developer in China, made the request in a letter to the government of southern Guangdong province dated Aug. 24, according to three people who confirmed the letter's authenticity.

Evergrande said late on Thursday that a document circulating online about a reorganisation of its subsidiary Hengda Real Estate was a fabrication and defamation, and said it has reported the matter to public security authorities.

Sources said information technology vs computer science letter had asked the local government to support its plan to gain a listing for Hengda on China's A-share market by buying a company that was already listed in Shenzhen. The plan was announced in 2016 but has yet to receive regulatory approval.

It did not spell out exactly what sort of support it was seeking, but urged the local government to pay attention to the matter and help to coordinate some progress on the listing. Evergrande's Hong Kong-listed shares tumbled 5.8% earlier in the day on Chinese online media reports about the request.

Evergrande said in the letter that Hengda must repay 130 billion yuan ($19.05 billion) it raised from investors for the plan. Those funds and a bonus of 13.7 billion yuan must be paid before Jan. 31, 2021, it said.

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Grenfell project manager misunderstood warning about ‘weak link for fire’, inquiry hears

 The project manager responsible for overseeing work on Grenfell Tower’s fatally flawed cladding system has admitted that he failed to understand a warning from a product manufacturer about a “weak link for fire” in the proposals.

Harley Facades’ Ben Bailey told the inquiry into 2017’s fire, which claimed the lives of 72 people, that he was not aware an email from a technical officer at cavity barrier firm Siderise referred to two distinct safety issues, only one of which was subsequently addressed.

Giving evidence to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry for a second day on Tuesday, the 30-year-old son of Harley director Ray Bailey accepted that he had not properly appreciated the detail in the 2015 warning from Siderise’s Chris Mort.

Mort mentioned he had spotted a “gap” that required some form of protection to stop fire spreading from the internal compartment of computer engineering career Tower to an external cavity and flagged the issue in an email to Bailey. Mort said he expected that building control officers would have noticed the omission of cavity barriers around the windows of the proposals.

West Valley community colleges create academy to prepare IT students for Microsoft jobs

 New Microsoft datacenters opening in the West Valley next year, there are job opportunities coming up. Two centers in Goodyear and one in El Mirage will open in 2021. This week, the tech company announced a partnership with Glendale Community College and Estrella Mountain Community College. They’re building a computer science engineering academy that will churn out employable IT graduates who already live in the West Valley.

“I think it shows how nimble the community colleges are in terms of responding to local workforce needs,” EMCC President Dr. Rey Rivera said. “I think it also shows that the West Valley is a major player in the IT field.”

Renovations in the school’s computer commons will begin next spring. The area will become a specialized IT lab where students from both colleges can get hands-on experience with industry-standard cloud storage hardware and networking equipment.

“Microsoft is going to be donating some servers, some equipment,” Rivera said. “They’re also going to be providing the construction crews to help us renovate the space.”

The colleges will be incorporating Microsoft-specific curriculum to the IT classes they already have in order to create a pipeline of job applicants. “We do anticipate their employees at these data centers become mentors to our students in the program, so it’s going to be a very symbiotic relationship,” Rivera said.