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ZeroAvia says it has successfully completed the first-ever flight of a commercial-scale electric-powered aircraft in the UK. On June 22, 2020, the company’s HyFlyer aircraft featuring the latest version of its hybrid hydrogen/electric powertrain took o… Continue reading ZeroAvia completes UK’s first commercial-scale electric aircraft flight
Estonia-based Milrem Robotics and Belgium’s John Cockerill Defense have unveiled Milrem’s Type-X Robotic Combat Vehicle. Based on a modular design and equipped with the Cockerill Protected Weapons Station Generation II (CPWS II) turret, the Type-X is a… Continue reading Type-X armored combat robot equipped for unmanned convoy protection
Watchmaker Jacob & Co and carmaker Bugatti have teamed up again to produce the Twin Turbo Furious 300+ wristwatch. With construction based on the previous Twin Turbo Furious watch and styling inspired by the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ hypercar, th… Continue reading Twin Turbo Furious 300+ is a record-breaking Bugatti for your wrist
An international team of scientists has found that the summer sea ice in the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica is diminishing at a dramatic rate. Since 2015, the ice cover has decreased by one million km² (386,000 mi²) and could pose a problem fo… Continue reading Massive loss of Antarctic sea ice threatens marine life
ESA has awarded a contract to Airbus Defence and Space to go ahead on the next phase to develop the advanced Sample Fetch Rover. The Advanced B2 study contract will allow Airbus in Stevenage, UK to continue work on the rover that will collect Martian r… Continue reading Airbus to continue work on ESA’s Fetch Mars rover
NASA’s New Horizons deep-space probe has, for the first time, returned images to Earth that show stellar parallax, or how the positions of stars shift when seen from two different places. This phenomenon could one day be used for interstellar navigatio… Continue reading New Horizons becomes first spacecraft to demonstrate stellar parallax
Pipestrel’s battery-powered Velis Electro aircraft has become the world’s first electric airplane to be awarded type certification by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). The certification confirms that the Velis Electro is airworthy in it… Continue reading World-first type certification awarded to Pipistrel electric plane
NASA has awarded Astrobotic a US$199.5-million contract to deliver the space agency’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the Moon’s south pole in late 2023. The Pittsburgh-based lunar logistics company will provide end-to-end de… Continue reading Astrobotic selected to land NASA VIPER rover on the Moon
Elbit Systems UK’s autonomous Seagull Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) has completed Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) sea trials off the British coast in collaboration with the Ministry of Defence, with the USA’s L3Harris Technologies providing sonar systems… Continue reading Seagull unmanned surface vehicle demonstrates anti-submarine potential
Britain’s Royal Marines will be testing a new helmet-mounted video camera designed to provide them with real-time data for informing tactical decisions. Part of the Future Commando Force concept, the bespoke camera is based on a general purpose camera … Continue reading Royal Marines test networked helmet-mounted video camera