Affiliations and Memberships
4Links is a member of, collaborator with, or contributor to, the organisations listed here.
4Links' SpaceWire test equipment is distributed in North America by
Aeroflex Colorado Springs, who now have a wide variety of SpaceWire products.
They commented, on choosing 4Links to supply SpaceWire test equipment
for them to distribute, that "the choice was obvious".
4Links' SpaceWire test equipment is distributed in Japan by
Prominent Network,
whose staff have a deep understanding of the technology underpinning SpaceWire,
going back to the 1980s.
4Links Limited is a member of ASTOS -
the Association of Specialist Technical Organisations for Space.
ASTOS is a UK trade association for small and
medium sized companies operating in the space sector.
4Links Limited has been represented at all sixteen of the
ESA SpaceWire Working Group
meetings. The Working Group is responsible for developing and maintaining the SpaceWire standards.
4Links Limited is indirectly a member of
UK Space through its membership of ASTOS.
4Links supports the British Interplanetary
Society, which is the world's longest established organization devoted to the
promotion of astronautics both nationally and internationally.
4Links sponsors the National Museum of Computing at
Bletchley Park, which houses
a rebuild of the Colossus computer,
the world's first programmable, digital, electronic, computing machine.
The museum follows the history of computing from the 1940s to the present day.