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Having witnessed tremendous growth in recent years, the market for small satellites now offers a great deal of potential - particularly for small and mid-sized companies. Start-ups like Skybox, Planet-Labs and UrtheCast are already grabbing headlines with satellite fleets, investment deals and corporate acquisitions.

While Star Wars fans excitedly await the next instalment of the film franchise, Harmonic Drive has released the next best thing: a short video inspired by the film. The video (below) demonstrates Harmonic Drive's technology in aerospace and defence applications, which until recently belonged in the realms of science fiction.

The UK will miss out on the chance to capture £40bn of the global space market and an additional 100,000 jobs if Government and industry does not address the problem of restrictive regulations, barriers to investment, the growing skills shortages in engineering and science and fragmented collaboration between stakeholders, according to a new report by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Intersil has introduced what is claimed to be the industry’s first radiation tolerant 3.3V CAN transceivers that are fully QML-V qualified and compliant with the ISO11898-2 physical layer standard. The three ISL7202xSEH CAN transceivers provide reliable serial data transmission between a CAN controller and CAN bus at speeds up to 1Mb/s.

Nordson ASYMTEK has introduced the Spectrum II Premier with the IntelliJet jetting system for dispensing small dot sizes at high frequencies without compromising the precision, high yield and long-term reliability needed for advanced packaging applications.

Emerson Network Power has releasedfive data center trends to watch for in 2016. “The industry continues to advance at an unprecedented pace,” said Steve Hassell, President of Data Centre Solutions, Emerson Network Power. “While many businesses remain cautious about making significant changes to their IT infrastructure due to economic uncertainty and the desire to extend the life of existing facilities, we are seeing innovation o...

Using a Specialised Imaging SIM8 ultra fast framing camera researchers at the Thiot Ingenierie Shock Physics Laboratory have been able study high velocity impacts of aluminium spheres against an aluminum target at velocities in excess of 4000m/s. Interest in hypervelocity has traditionally been driven by the military community but is increasingly of interest to the space / aerospace industry for areas of research such as enhancing the survivabili...

A new family ofrobust triaxial accelerometers for vibration measurements in harsh industrial environments – the Type 4529 – has been developed by Bruel & Kjaer. Designed as a replacement for the company’s Type 4506 model,the Type 4529 family has a tougher design and wider frequency range.

Scouting the market for energy harvesting for almost 7 years now has allowed IDTechEx significant insight into the markets for the technologies, the potential applications and their prospects for growth. The following list of applications comes from recent IDTechEx research that has looked into the level of maturity of a wide range of end user applications, and the technology of choice in most of them. Dr Harry Zervos, Principal Analyst & Bu...

A swimsuit has been designed, by the University of California, Riverside, which has the ability to clean water as the user swims. The swimsuit uses a material called Sponge, which is a reuseable material and is derived from heater sucrose, a form of sugar. The swimsuit repels water and absorbs harmful contaminats as it has a highly porous structure that is super hydrophobic.