Tag Archives: Speed

In context: SpaceX is banking on Starlink to generate more revenues from its commercial and remote government applications. The recent increase in performance of a new mobile community gateway will likely help deliver that. It is now preparing to use the technology on naval ships or airplanes. It won’t come …

An FPV from Omega M2 seconds before it destroys a Russian Orlan-10 artillery spotter drone Omega M2 Unit Ukrainian FPVs have started bringing down Russian reconnaissance drones, apparently the result of an rapid development process by Ukraine’s BRAVE1. This is a government technology accelerator which aims to get good ideas …

How did China go from tech imitator to innovator? The FT’s James Kynge reports from Shenzhen, known as China’s Silicon Valley, where he explores the city’s vast electronics markets with inventor Noah Zerkin, an American who’s based himself in China, visits robot start-up Youibot and hears from DJI about how …

WHAT comes to mind when you think of the word drone? It could be futuristic autonomous bots delivering packages of things you ordered online right to your doorstep, or maybe those light shows put on during big celebrations like National Day and New Year’s. In Malaysia, we’ve seen them used …

Your lawyer will see you now How many people of us can honestly say we have never slipped up with our finances, incurred a £1 million tax penalty, and had to pay back £4.8 million to the Inland Revenue? It is, though, slightly concerning that somebody who, in his own …

Moving to aerial digital inspection will enable Lockheed Martin to accurately and safely improve the manufacturing metrology of the F-35. The F-35 Lightning II is an all-weather stealth combat aircraft that is intended to perform warfare strike missions and electronic surveillance capabilities at speeds up to 1.6 Mach. Composites comprise …

Example of the tiling pattern used in scanning a C. elegans roundworm. The non-grid-based pattern gives the sampling algorithm greater flexibility to quickly zero in on areas of interest. (Credit: Elizabeth Holman/Caltech and Yuan-Sheng Fang/Berkeley Lab) Question: What do a roundworm, a Sharpie pen, and high-vacuum grease have in common? …