Human Aerospace begins space suit development

Space life sciences company Human Aerospace has announced the launch of a collaborative research programme to develop ‘Spacesuits for Preserving Human Health and Mobility”. The two year project was successful in receiving grant funding from the Australian Space Agency’s International Space Investment: Expand Capability grant programme. The company has previously developed a Gravity Loading Countermeasure…

Vaxxas and Aim Lab automate vaccination skin patch production

Drug delivery system developer Vaxxas has automated the process it uses for manufacturing its high-density microarray patch (HD-MAP) which administers vaccinations to patients. Working with automation specialist Aim Lab, the Brisbane company needed to speed up the manufacturing process for its micro-array systems that encompass thousands of micro-projections that can be coated with a vaccine…

Sparc and Fortescue accelerate novel green hydrogen process

Adelaide’s Sparc Technologies and Fortescue Future Industries will accelerate scoping of the commercialisation of a revolutionary green hydrogen production process that does not utilise energy-hungry electrolysis. The partners, along with Adelaide and Flinders Universities, are in a joint venture to commercialise patent-pending photocatalytic water splitting technology with the aim of producing low-cost green hydrogen on…

Land Forces 2022 – SMEs suffer as defence contracts delayed, by Michael Slattery

Today @AuManufacturing’s special editorial series Land Forces 2022 turns to the predicament of the SME manufacturers supplying defence. Here, Michael Slattery looks at project delays and how they affect SMEs investing in new capabilities. On the first morning of LandForces 2022 the new federal government announced that it was deferring the Land 400 Ph3 programme.…

Spiral Blue delivers satellite edge computer for Project Rainbow Python

Edge computer developer Spiral Blue has developed a new version of its Space Edge Computer and delivered it to Esper Satellite Imagery for inclusion in two planned space missions to capture satellite imagery. The company delivered its Space Edge One Hyperspectral (SE-1H) edge computing system (pictured) which will be integrated into Esper’s hyperspectral imagers OTR-1…

Land Forces 2022 – 3D printing to revolutionise logistics at the front

Today in our special editorial series Land Forces 2022, we look at additive manufacturing technology and how it is set to bring manufacturing to the front. Here Peter Roberts profiles metal 3D printer manufacturer, SPEE3D. For electrical engineer Steven Camilleri, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of metal 3D printer manufacturer SPEE3D, the times are right…