Aerospace & Defence

Event vehicles at the Farnborough International Airshow will be fitted with connected devices in field trial of real-time outdoor asset management solution.

A new series of axial leaded, hermetically sealed wet electrolytic tantalum capacitors has been released by AVX, that achieve supercapacitor CV values in high temperature environments up to 125°C.

An ETH spin-off, Vir2sense, specialises in the development of virtual testbeds designed to optimise the performance of marine diesel engines. The young entrepreneurs, Christophe Barro and Panagiotis Kyrtatos, hope to sell their product to big shipping companies. In the world of global shipping, deep-sea vessels are the industry’s workhorses, tirelessly transporting goods across the main maritime routes.

Icon Polymer, a supplier of polymer components to the global aerospace sector, has clinched a major contract with Rolls- Royce’s Civil Aerospace business.

  Engineering students from Loughborough have beaten other undergraduate teams to be crowned overall winners of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Challenge.

Robotic glove technology developed out of a partnership between General Motors and NASA for use on the International Space Station is being brought to life in health care, manufacturing and other applications through a licensing agreement between GM and Bioservo Technologies AB, a Swedish medical technology company.

  A number of systems based on the MUSS self-protection systems are to be delivered; QinetiQ will work with a number of sub-contractors, including Airbus Defence and Space who are contracted to deliver the systems, for evaluation.  

Launched nearly five years ago on 5th August, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, NASA’s solar-powered spacecraft, ‘Juno’, has crossed the four largest Galilean moons of Jupiter (eponymously named after Galileo Galilei who discovered them in 1609) and has reached its destination; Jupiter. Follow Juno's mission from launch to orbit below. 

The European partnership between Flying Whales and Skeleton Technologies will ensure that graphene ultracapacitor technology powers next-gen large, heavy-lift airships for industrial applications in China and France. Europe’s leading ultracapacitor manufacturer Skeleton Technologies will join French firm Flying Whales’ programme to build a 60-ton Large Capacity Airship, or LCA60T, for the global transport market.

NASA's Balloon Program Office successfully completed the second test flight of its Super Pressure Balloon (SPB) at 3:54 p.m. EDT, Saturday, July 2, setting a new flight duration record for a mid-latitude flight of a large scientific research balloon. The mission, which began at 7:35 p.m. EDT, May 16 (11:35 a.m., May 17, in New Zealand time), launched from Wanaka, New Zealand, and ran a total of 46 days, 20 hours, and 19 minutes.