UK’s Equipmake to supply e-motors for Gilmour’s Eris rocket

Australian venture-backed rocket company Gilmour Space Technologies has announced UK-based electrification business Equipmake as a supplier of electric motors and inverters for the upcoming Eris rocket launch, after work on the project between the pair that began in late-2020. According to its website, Equipmake was established in 1997 by former Formula 1 engineer Ian Foley,…

CSIRO to invest $90 million in newly-launched Towards Net Zero Mission

A decarbonisation-themed mission has joined others underway at CSIRO, including drought resilience and ending plastic waste, with a launch on Tuesday of a Towards Net Zero Mission. The national science organisation said that the mission was initially allocated $90 million, and represented “a large-scale scientific and collaborative research initiative bringing together research, industry, government, and…

Lockheed Martin and C4i collaborate for secure communications

Lockheed Martin Australia has joined forces with Australian secure communications systems developer C4i, signing a contract as part of a proposal to deliver advanced secure communication capabilities to support the RAAF’s AIR6500 Phase 1 Project (AIR6500-1). The contract will see the two companies work together to design, test, integrate and authenticate secure voice communication technologies…

Land Forces 2022 — Sapphire clock earns another tick of approval

Today @AuManufacturing’s special editorial series, Land Forces 2022, looks at how an Australian invention — the world’s most precise atomic clock — fits into the Jindalee radar network upgrade. As reported by this website, the Sapphire Cryogenic Clock made by Adelaide timing and quantum sensing business QuantX Labs has passed through full acceptance testing and…