15/03/18
The experiment controller board developed by XCAM for the CAPSA cold atoms cubesat payload project was successfully delivered to the QT Hub for Sensors team at the University of Birmingham by XCAM engineers Friday. The experiment controller was fully functional upon its first...
20/02/18
A bespoke headboard, designed by XCAM to drive a custom CCD image sensor for the Ultraviolet Visible Near-infrared (UVN) instrument aboard the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-4 satellite mission has been successfully delivered to ESA. The mission aims to monitor trace gas...
08/09/17
Eliot, a Theoretical Physics undergraduate student from University of Birmingham, is now in the final week of his eight-week summer internship working at XCAM. Eliot has made a great addition to the XCAM team during his time here. Here’s what he had to say about his experience:...
02/09/17
Position Sensitive Detectors 11 is a multi-disciplinary, international conference which brings...
19/07/17
XCAM engineers will be at the 2017 NASA Contamination, Coatings, Materials, and Planetary Protection Workshop at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, USA this week to jointly present the latest developments of the PFO Particulate...
19/05/17
The winners of the Insider Made in the Midlands Awards 2017 were announced at an awards ceremony in Birmingham last night; XCAM are delighted to have been selected as the winner for the Advanced Engineering/Technology category for a second,...
17/05/17
A cold atom cloud suspended in a magneto optical trap (MOT) has been successfully imaged by XCAM’s C3D CubeSat camera system. The captured image shows the cold atom cloud as the bright spot at the centre of the image, produced using the...
08/05/17
XCAM attended the Science Day held by Northampton High School, a local school for girls, in support of the opening of their brand new junior science lab. CEO of XCAM, Karen Holland, was invited to ‘cut the ribbon’ which included igniting a container full of flammable gas, much to...
21/04/17
XCAM has been shortlisted for the 2017 ‘Insider Made in the Midlands’ award in the Advanced Manufacturing/Technology category. This represents the second year in a row that XCAM has been shortlisted for the award, which XCAM won in 2016.
The award is offered for the use of...
02/03/17
XCAM will be providing the electronics for the camera and experiment controller aboard the Cold Atom Space PAyload (CASPA); the third CubeSat project involving XCAM as a collaborator. Led by e2v with scientific expertise provided by University of Birmingham and University of...
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