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The second part of the ExoMars programme is ongoing.In Stevenage, UK, a rover is being built that will carry a drill and a suite of instruments dedicated to exobiology and geochemistry research.

On 26th November, the NASA InSight Lander, with the help of Wind River VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS), reached an important milestone in its journey to Mars, as InSight begins a 12,300mph descent to the red planet. With the Insight lander’s avionics system based on VxWorks, this NASA mission brings the Wind River RTOS back to Mars once again following the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity mission in 2012.

It has been announced that Oxford Direct Services (ODS) has been approved as an authorised service dealer for the world’s first purpose built electric taxi; the TX. Under a three-year agreement, ODS will join a network of LEVC dealers outside London servicing TX black cabs, carrying out warranty work, supplying parts, responding to any breakdowns and undertaking body repairs in its insurance approved body repair centre.

Design engineers cannot possible keep up to date with every new product and component that is released onto the market. Here we talk to John Marshall of WDS Component Parts, who said he and his colleagues understand this, so have developed services and support to aid component selection and specification.

Two years from now, the US space agency NASA will send a new rover to the Red Planet. This trip will include a small helicopter which will take the first aerial photos of Mars. The rotors will be controlled by robust DC motors from Switzerland.

A mum is aiming for the skies after returning to the classroom to qualify as an aerospace engineer.The former RAF engineer, who was sent on detachment around the world, has returned to the Tees Valley to continue her education at Hartlepool College of Further Education.Catherine Lollis, 26, who has toured Italy, Gibraltar, Spain and the USA is now studying for an HNC Aerospace Engineering certification with the College after leaving the force to ...

Following on the recent success of the InSight probe’s Mars landing,VxWorksis once again enabling an interplanetary first – an asteroid sample return mission. On 3rd December 2018, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Guest blog written byTim Skutt, Wind River.

The global autonomous vehicle market is expected to grow at a rate of almost40% from 2019 to 2026as at least46 companies, including the likes of Tesla and Alphabet, develop self-driving vehicles that willadd $7 trillionto the global economy. By:Dr Bryan Marshall, Head of IoT and AV Technology, Nominet.

The new 19" marshalling panels from Phoenix Contact simplify FO cabling and are suitable for real time data transmission. The modular design enables a variety of applications, for example in power distribution and process technology.

Pressure and humidity measuring devices are being delivered by Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), based on Vaisala's technology to NASA's Mars 2020 Rover. The pressure measurement devices were finalised earlier this year and now also the humidity measuring instruments are completed and ready for the final testing.