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The global aerospace industry has been delivering innovative and groundbreaking manufacturing technologies for decades. The demand for machined components has increased exponentially over the years owing to the expansion of technological horizons. ByPeter Jacobs, Senior Director of Marketing at CNC Masters

Goodwood has launched its Future Lab podcast brought to you by Randox and the Goodwood Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard (8-11thJuly), home of the Future Lab live exhibition. The podcast, produced bythe UK’s largest independent podcastand audio producer,Somethin’ Else, willspotlight the people tackling the biggest problems facing planet earth and pushing humanity to achieve things we’ve never seen before.

Philip K. Dick’s 1964 science fiction novel,Martian Time-Slip, imagined a human colony on Mars reliant on waterways, allotments and robots. Today, such quaint sci-fi concepts are actual scientific possibilities now that we better understand the resources that are available on the red planet. Here, Samir Jaber, engineering content writer atMatmatch, examines how materials testing could make or break humanity’s future on Mars.

In 2017, after four years of setbacks and crashes, Alphabet shut its project flying solar-powered fixed-wing drones in the upper atmosphere to beam the internet to those cut-off. Facebook then exited its similar project, but the Chinese aerospace industry, Airbus, Boeing, and NASA are progressing them very well.

The giant investors SpaceX, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Baidu, Toyota, Tesla, Hyundai, VW, LG, Apple and Virgin are involved in smart city hardware in ways you would not expect. Their involvement spans making complete smart cities from scratch to robot shuttles replacing ten types of vehicle, vertical take-off taxis, Hyperloop, vertical farming, battery elimination, solar and sensor everything and structural electronics.

Imagine being able to take a trip from New York to Washington, or from Amsterdam to Düsseldorf in 30 minutes? With the hyperloop, transportation might become so fast that no distance would ever be a problem. Here, Samir Jaber, content writer at materials database Matmatch, has given more insights about this futuristic transportation from a materials science perspective.

Every day in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, you’ll see planes continually taking off from the tiny regional airport near Digi-Key’s headquarters. More often than not, those planes are carrying a portion of the 20,000 packages that Digi-Key sends to over 8,000 customers around the world in a single day. By Chris Lauer, Vice President of Order Fulfilment, Digi-Key Electronics

OPEN MIND Technologies has announced that Ramco Machine is helping to impact the future of space exploration by using hyperMILL CAM software and five-axis machining to make parts for an advanced NASA satellite mission.

Space is back in style. Literally. Fromnew space suits for the first space tourists, tolimited-edition NASA bomber jackets, the space market is seeing a renaissance of interest. And with it comes a new infusion of startups and tech revolutionising this industry. Guest blog written byAndreea Volosincu, Wind River.

A chorus of alarms serenaded the nervous astronauts as theEaglelunar module descended toward the moon’s surface. The tension was palpable, and the shrill ringing only added to their worries. Guest blog written byRanjan Sikand, Wind River Intern.