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| Aerospace and Defence Newsletter |
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| Air Commodore Dave Tait, in charge of recruitment for the UK Ministry of Defence, hosted a panel discussion at DSEI 2021 which addressed the challenges currently faced by the defence industry in both recruiting and retaining engineers. |
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| Electric Vehicles are paving the way for the future of the automotive industry and they’re not stopping there. With air traffic set to increase by five percent every year until 2030, electric or hybrid electric aircrafts could be the solution to greener air travel. |
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| AS-Schneider has received an order from the space industry. The company supplies valves and valve manifolds for the programme of a national space agency that have to meet very special requirements for use in space. |
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| Prospero is the only British satellite put into orbit by a rocket we built ourselves, was launched into orbit by the British rocket ‘Black Arrow’ in 1971. For two years, Prospero – named for the character in the Shakespeare place The Tempest – carried out experiments in order to learn more about the effects of space on orbital communications equipment. |
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| It feels like Richard Branson has been talking about whisking us all into space for decades, but what progress is actually being made? With Virgin Galactic completing the first of three test flights on May 22nd, it seems like 2021 might finally be the year that commercial space flight sees its launch. |
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| Space. The final frontier, the first step in a journey (a new beginning), or a horrifying void matched only by your deep fear of the ocean? Whatever your feelings on space, technology has been steadily pushing forwards to take exploration further, faster, and foodier than ever before. |
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| A vital piece of gas rocket engines, combustors - the chambers in which the combustion powering the engine occurs - have the problem of breaking down due to fatal high-frequency oscillations during the combustion process. Now, through advanced time-series analyses based on complex systems, researchers from Tokyo University of Science and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have found what causes them, opening up novel paths to solving the problem. |
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| You could be forgiven for assuming that the space industry is almost entirely male dominated because in the very early days of space exploration, that was mostly true. However, as early as 1963, Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first of many women in space as part of the Vostok 6 mission. Exactly two decades later, in 1983, Sally Ride flew aboard the Space Shuttle STS-7, becoming the first American female in space. In fact, women have been very active in space missions since the turn of the century with a total of 65 women having flown in space (as of March 2021). Marie-Pierre Ducharme, Mouser Electronics investigates. |
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| The British Army’s 16 Air Assault Brigade is set to sharpen its close quarter fighting skills in a new smart training facility installed by 4GD in Colchester, Essex. Designed and developed by British ex-Marines, the new high-tech 4GD SmartFacility, the build of which commenced on 4th January, is equipped with the advanced close quarter battle training capabilities that will test the metal of 16 Brigade trainees and prepare them for high-intensity conflicts. |
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| Mobile communications company Ligado Networks and Point One Navigation, a provider of precise location technology, announced that Ligado will provide pervasive, high-performance satellite capacity to support Point One’s Polaris GNSS correction service. |
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