SpaceX has pushed back this week’s planned launch of its Falcon 9 rocket by one day. This comes in the wake of the automatic termination of the F9R (Falcon 9 Reusable) on Friday 22nd of August, which resulted in a large explosion over a test site in Texas. On detecting an anomaly, the rocket’s flight termination system initiated a command to self-destruct (this forms par...
SpaceX, the space exploration company founded by Elon Musk, has recently unveiled its Dragon V2. The Dragon V2 represents a major step forward for the company as it is their first spacecraft capable of transporting humans to and from space. The new spacecraft will eventually feature as part of the multi-billion dollar contract between SpaceX and NASA. The launch could...
In 2000, Sam Schmidt, an aspiring racing car driver, crashed during a practice lap and was left paralyzed. Last Sunday, May 18th, some 14 years after his accident, he returned to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. This inspiring return was made possible thanks to a specially outfitted 2014 Corvette C7 Stingray, which was modified as part of the ‘SAM’ or semi-autonomous ...
Space X’s plan to launch the Falcon Heavy has been delayed until 2015. Apparently the company’s schedule is too tight to support a test launch before the end of the year. When launched the Falcon Heavy will be the heaviest rocket since NASA’s Saturn V, which transported the Apollo missions into space. It has a projected Low Earth Orbit (LEO) payload of 53,000 kg, which w...
The first commercial 3D laser measurement and modal analysis scanning center is set to open in Nuneaton, UK this May. The Advanced Structural Dynamics Evaluation Collaborative (ASDEC) Research Center is set up to serve the automotive, defense, aerospace and power generation industries, with the goal of providing accurate and rapid vibration readings to design engineers. ...
Transporting anything into space is expensive, just ask NASA. SpaceX, the Elon Musk space exploration company is working on making space travel cheaper, but they can only do so much. The sheer complexities involved and distances between Earth and space means every eventuality must be covered before the launch date. This can mean including a large number of tools, parts a...
Spike Aerospace is currently designing a supersonic jet that will fly at average speeds of Mach 1.6-1.8. The super fast jet will not only set new speed standards in air travel, but will fundamentally modify airplanes as we know them; the S S-512 will be windowless. The inner walls of the plane will be covered with ultra-thin, embedded display screens, live-streaming p...
Cape Canaveral, Monday November 18, 1:28 PM (1828 GMT). The NASA launched MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN), the unmanned spacecraft, heading to Mars to study the planet’s atmosphere. The Red Planet remains the source of many questions for scientists such as why it lost its warmth and water over time. Hopefully MAVEN’s expedition will unveil some of its secr...
Tam from NASA has developed a way to silence the low buzz that drones emit. The latest in a series of prototypes from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, the GL-10 is made from carbon fiber and has a three-meter wingspan, with eight engines on the wings and another two on the tail. Efficient electric propulsion is one goal of the project, though the larg...
A hoverbike that flies like a quadcopter is the end result of a year of R&D by Malloy Aeronautics, following the decision by the US Army to develop and build the manned quadcopter. According to its developer, the Hoverbike has combined the simplicity of a motorbike with the freedom of a helicopter to become the world’s first flying motorcycle. Cheaper, more rugged and ea...
Lightning Hybrids, developer and manufacturer of hydraulic hybrid systems for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses, announced an agreement with Kiessling Transit to supply 35 hydraulic hybrid systems. The sale marks Lightning Hybrids’ largest order to date. Lightning Hybrids’ system has shown improvements of 30% in fuel efficiency and significantly reduced nitrogen-ox...
The little gadget can be built into the vehicle without taking up space. The way it works is particularly reliable, thanks to its special encapsulation. All too often, a driver has only fractions of a second to decide when facing a potential car accident: A brief moment of distraction, overtiredness or inattention – there are several reasons why the number of acciden...
The company was founded almost 90 years ago, and today, Bentley Motors' cars are best known for their luxury using skills that have been handed down through generations, alongside engineering expertise and cutting-edge technology. The EXP 10 Speed 6 concept is a British interpretation of a high performance two seater sports car using modern automotive design, highly s...
The train brings Europe closer together. Nevertheless, the rail control system of individual countries still differ from one another; for example, train drivers do not use standardized signals or standard procedures when a signal malfunctions. In addition, train control systems – such as the automatic stop for a signal violation – operate differently from one country to ...
According to the reseachers, this is the first time an entire aircraft engine has been printed. The 3D printed engine is a replica of a gas turbine engine, an auxiliary power unit used in aircraft such as the Falcon 20 private jet. Its producer, French aerospace company Microturbo (Safran) says it was chosen because they were willing for the internal workings to be disp...
Mounted on a carbon fibre single shell chassis, the NTU Venture (NV) 8 will race in the Urban Concept category at this year's Shell Eco-marathon Asia. NTU students have also built the NTU Venture (NV) 9, a slick three-wheeled racer which can take sharp corners with little loss in speed due to its unique tilting ability inspired by motorcycle racing. NV9, featuring ...
Solar Impulse founder André Borschberg was at the controls of the single-seat aircraft when it lumbered into the air at the Al Bateen Executive Airport. Borschberg will trade off piloting with Solar Impulse co-founder Bertrand Piccard during layovers on a 35,000-kilometer (21,700-mile) journey. Some legs of the trip, such as over the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, will ...
German forklift truck manufacturer Linde Material Handling, together with Hamburg-based Fiat specialists Karabag, has converted a conventional Fiat 500 into an electric car. The Karabag 500E features a three-phase asynchronous motor providing 20 kW of nominal power, and a 125-V, 11-kW lithium polymer battery. Performance of the car is best described as leisurely, but it ...
APPLE Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has hundreds of employees working on an electric car project — codenamed “Titan” — that will reportedly resemble a minivan and would be branded as an Apple product. But according to a USA TODAY article, Apple may not be working on a vehicle, but rather a fully integrated dash platform to bring more iP...
Shenzhen Rion technology co., LTD. Design production of Angle sensor, the biggest measurement precision of 0.01 °, not only can accurately detect the cable car orbital tilt change, still can real-time detect cable car itself driving posture, once produce Angle too big can output the corresponding signal so as to realize the monitoring and control system of cable car alar...
LTE-Unlicensed is a communication method which is constructed on unlicensed spectrum of LTE, and runs LTE. Darveen Technology’s ICR-680, which integrates Huawei eLTE-U chip, runs LTE communications on a 5.8GHz unlicensed spectrum, enabling enterprise users to deploy the most specialized and advanced industrial wireless private network on their own. Darveen ICR-680 miniat...
Torque ratings, life and reliability are significantly improved compared to CSF series products of the same size. 30% higher rated torque 30% higher repeated peak torque 30% higher maximum momentary torque 42% longer life (L10 of 10,000 hours) The external dimensions, mass, torsional stiffness, moment stiffness, positional accuracy, repeatability, input moment of in...
The work is for the Danhai light rail transit project. Taiwan’s local industry giant China Steel along with its subsidiaries United Steel Engineering & Construction and Taiwan Rolling Stock will construct the first phases corridors. There will be two lines – one with 11 stations and the other with three – as well as a depot. The project, expected to be completed in 2018,...
Background With the rapid development of science and technology, the traffic volume in the city is growing fast and various problems occurred in the buses management. However, Intelligent electronic bus board system can provide real-time and accurate information for vehicle operation and management to reduce the pressure of public transportation and improve the overal...
A few years after Google entered the race, cofounder Sergey Brin crowed that autonomous vehicles were just around the corner. “You can count on one hand the number of years it will take before ordinary people can experience this,” he said at a press conference. That was in 2012. Since then, nearly every automaker, Google spinoff Waymo, ridesharing companies Uber and L...
Since last April, Luminar has scaled up its partnerships with a select few companies with TRI being the first to deeply integrate its new sensing platform. According to TRI’s Chief Technology Officer James Kuffner, “We moved swiftly and early to adopt the Luminar platform into our fleet, and as a result we’re rapidly advancing our program. The level of data fidelity and ...
Safety, Surveillance And Infotainment Networked cameras are seeing rapid adoption in several large and growing segments such as Automotive for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and Digital Home & Industrial for surveillance and infotainment applications. These applications are characterized by the need for energy efficient, size and cost effective products wi...
The agency says such systems, or “gremlins,” would be deployed with a mixture of mission payloads capable of carrying out a variety of activities in a coordinated manner, providing U.S. forces with improved operational flexibility at a lower cost than is possible with conventional, "monolithic" platforms. The Phase 1 contracts have been awarded to four teams whose propo...
The production of carbon fibre chassis is an expensive business â just ask BMW. The German vehicle-maker and its partners have between them spent upwards of â¬700m ($870m) on the mass-production of its i3 and i8 models which feature large amounts of carbon fibre-reinforced plastic (CFRP). Moreover, these costs do not decrease much for low- and medium-volume manufactu...
Each spring, as roads that have frozen during the winter begin to thaw from the surface downward, melting snow and ice saturate the ground. The roadbed, softened by trapped moisture beneath the pavement, is more susceptible to damage—and vehicle-weight restrictions are put into force. A major problem with the weight restrictions, however, is that the conditions under th...
"We are more or less reinventing the [van] segment," said Bernhard Glaser, vice president and managing director of Mercedes-Benz Vans USA, at this month's Work Truck Show in Indianapolis. With the introduction of the Sprinter in 2001, the German company was the first automaker to bring a European-style cargo van to the U.S. Last year, the nameplate had record sales under...
The new engine combines two promising technologies—gasoline compression ignition and opposed pistons—to create a "super engine" that could fundamentally change the way internal combustion engines work in the light-duty transportation market. "Conventional spark-ignited engines have improved so dramatically over the past few decades that there is little room to make bi...
The project uses fiber optic technology to assist in its measurement, since it is more accurate than conventional metallic strain gauges, the institute says. The tests measured deformation of CFRP used to make an upper fuselage structure from the cockpit to the wings — one of the most heavily stressed components during flight — on a medium range, 70-passenger aircraft. E...
“Explore” is the restrained word used in the joint press release, which set no deadlines and mentioned no sum of money. Even so, this represents the first solid evidence that anyone might build a large-scale version of the Hyperloop, Elon Musk’s 2013 concept for shooting passenger-carrying pods through partially evacuated tubes at just-barely subsonic speeds. HTT is b...
In a feature article in the February 2016 issue of Wired, the journalist Alex Davies proclaims that Chevy, with its Bolt crossover, has stolen a march on the Bay Area start-up in the race to produce the first mass-marketed all-battery electric vehicle (BEV). (See my article, “A Tesla in Every Garage? Not So Fast,” on the challenges of producing all-electric supercars for...
On January 26, Chris Urmson, director of Google’s self-driving car program, requested renewal of the company’s Experimental Authority for radio transmitters operating in the 76 GHz range. These are almost certainly long-range radars fitted to Google’s prototype self-driving cars. The heavily-redacted filing notes that the mobile transmitters are currently located in M...
