Aerospace & Defence

Government ministers visited Spaceport Cornwall on the 8th November 2022 ahead of the first satellite launch from UK soil later this month.

A Scottish rocket manufacturer and orbital launch services provider is to build and operate the first vertical launch site for satellites on the UK mainland.

Critical elements of a new instrument attached to the International Space Station (ISS) this summer, designed to examine the chemical composition of atmospheric mineral dust, is powered by hardware from high-performance electronics company Alpha Data.

To help explain the formation, evolution and behaviour of large-scale structures in the universe such as galaxies, scientists have predicted the existence of dark matter. In fact, theory suggests that the universe may actually contain up to five times more dark matter than ordinary matter!

Future human space exploration requires a safe living environment for astronauts. That is why a robust structural health monitoring (SHM) process is imperative to ensure equipment safety, particularly for the inflatable habitat structures that are the most cost-efficient solution to the astronauts’ living space needs. By Ted Fetterman, Bally Ribbon Mills reports.

As part of Telstra’s rapidly growing satellite telecommunications portfolio and services, it has expanded ground stations in Perth and Merredin, Western Australia with additional antennas to support the revolutionary I-6 F1 satellite from Inmarsat.

Many engineers of a certain age may fondly remember the first transatlantic television pictures sent via the Telstar satellite.

An esteemed and experienced panel of judges from the aerospace and defence community recognised Neousys as a Silver honouree.

The Air France-KLM Group and Neste have announced the expansion of their existing cooperation with a new partnership for the supply of Neste MY sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to the Group. This new SAF agreement for a period of eight years is one of the largest of its kind in the aviation industry to date.

Four-star winners in Embedded Computing, Rugged Computing and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning categories are built on GMS’ innovative new X9 Spider distributed architecture for the next-generation Army.