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Jankel has delivered the first of their ‘next generation’ Guardian Counter Terror Assault Vehicle-Urban (CTAV-URBAN) to an undisclosed customer. Based on the latest 2020 Ford F-550 platform, the Guardian CTAV-URBAN features a new Mobile Adjustable Ramp System (MARS) from long-standing partners Patriot 3 who work exclusively with Jankel in the UK.

After years of preliminary work by NASA and a traversed flight distance of 292 million miles, the Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars on 18th February 2021. One of the main goals of the Mars mission is to search for signs of primeval microbial life. The rover will analyse the geology of the planet and the climate of earlier times, and will be the first mission to collect and store Martian rocks and regolith (broken rocks and dust).

The Chief Executive Office of Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S), Air Marshal Sir Simon Bollom, KBE, CB, FREng, has talked about the organisation’s role in multi-domain integration, sustainability and SME engagement in the latest exclusive In Conversation With interview hosted by DSEI Senior Military Adviser, Air Vice-Marshal (ret’d) Gary Waterfall.

Omniflex has helped deliver the world’s first remotely monitored Impressed Current Cathodic Protection (ICCP) system for protecting Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) storage bullets from corrosion. The project was carried out by Electrical Manufacturing, designed by Isinyithi Cathodic Protection Engineering Consultants on behalf of Sunrise Energy, Africa’s largest LPG import terminal.

From the first successful Mars Rover mission in 1997, DC motors from maxon have been used in most successful robot missions to the Red Planet. Here Andrew Gibson, aerospace sales engineer at precision drives and motor specialists maxon UK, has discussed the secrets behind maxon’s success, and explores what it takes to make motors that can thrive in the challenging environment found on Mars.

DE-CIX and EllaLink, the express optical platform between Europe and Latin America, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a strategic partnership. The goal of the partnership is to promote and enhance a new low latency path across the southern Atlantic, directly connecting Brazil and South Europe.

Technological innovation seems to speed up every year. If you go back far enough, then quality of life didn’t change very much from one century to the next, and before the industrial revolution, neither did technology. Now though, the human race is going at light speed, and it’s hard to predict what will happen over the next decade, let alone the next 100 years; but with a pinch of salt in mind, what might be waiting for us around the...

Solid State Group expects to announce results ahead of the recently upgraded consensus forecasts for its full year to March 31, 2021.

The Milky Way, the galaxy that holds our solar system, is estimated to be up to 150,000 light years in diameter. Space is vast and enigmatic, making it a focal point for exploration. Studying the mysteries of space requires innovative and robust technology that is up for the challenge. Here Dave Walsha, Sales Manager atEMS, explores the out of this world applications of high performance micromotors.

Agriculture 4.0 is the latest revolution in agriculture, something that has been integral to the human way of life since the dawn of time, in one form or another. Agriculture 4.0 is the introduction of AI and smart machines into the agriculture the industry, and has grown to such an extent that is now the world’s third largest robotics market.