{"id":97689,"date":"2025-08-26T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/97689\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:00:08","slug":"filtronics-biggest-deal-with-elon-musks-spacex-signed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/97689\/","title":{"rendered":"Filtronic’s biggest deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX signed"},"content":{"rendered":"

A British technology firm has secured its biggest ever contract, worth \u00a347.3m, with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.<\/p>\n

Filtronic, based in Sedgefield in County Durham, signed a deal to supply gallium nitride E-band technology for use in satellite communications.<\/p>\n

The company, which has manufacturing sites in County Durham and the US, along with three engineering centres in the UK, said its technology would play a “vital role” in supporting the Starlink constellation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chief executive Nat Edington said the “landmark contract” had set a new commercial record for the company.<\/p>\n

Filtronic said the order would boost its revenue in 2026-27, when it will begin shipping product units, as well as through the following financial year.<\/p>\n

It first struck up a strategic partnership and commercial agreement with SpaceX in April 2024 and announced a further \u00a316.8m contract in February.<\/p>\n

Mike Nicholls, vice president of engineering at Starlink, said: “This next-generation technology will provide further benefits to our system and our customers’ experience and we’re excited to enter this next phase with Filtronic.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British technology firm has secured its biggest ever contract, worth \u00a347.3m, with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Filtronic, based…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-97689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}