Spanish Navy Adds Saab Seaeye ROV for Submarine Escape and Rescue
loading requirements, smaller deck footprints, smaller vessel requirements and smaller transportation needs.Included is a pilot’s control cabin and the entire system, or relevant free-swimming or tether-management configurations, is in the process of being certified for air transportation aboard an Airbus A400M to fulfil a global role in rescue operations.Said to be the most powerful of its size in the world, the Seaeye Leopard has 11 powerful thrusters and with its iCON intelligent control is more highly maneuverable in strong currents than a hydraulic vehicle and, being acoustically quieter, can
Maritime Defense Industry Specialist Joins Kraken Robotics' Board of Directors
Mills to its board of directors, effective December 1, 2022. "Mr. Mills is an internationally experienced executive specializing in defense and critical infrastructure sectors. He will commence, also on December 1st, the role of CEO and Managing Director at Stelia North America, part of the Airbus Group and a leading manufacturer of composites and metallic structures for the aerospace industry," Kraken Robotics said.Previously, Kraken said, he held the role of President at Ultra Sonar Systems, leading an international business unit of over 850 staff delivering underwater sensing technologies
New InmarsatSatellite Reaches Geostationary Orbit, Testing Begins
testing program before moving and entering service over the Eastern Indian Ocean in early 2023. Ground stations at Perth and Merredin in Western Australia will support I-6 F1 service.The satellite will soon be followed by its ‘identical twin’, I-6 F2, which has just completed testing at Airbus Defence and Space facilities in Toulouse, France. It is due to be launched in Q1 2023 by SpaceX.“The I-6 satellites will extend Inmarsat’s global leadership in L-band services through ELERA to the 2040s, as well as enhance further our Global Xpress Ka-band network capacity in emerging
The Case for 3D Printing Downhole Tools
edge.That said, it's precisely those folks who can benefit from learning more about the tremendous potential of these new technologies.It’s important to understand that 3D printing has been in development since the mid-80s and is now a mature, well-understood manufacturing process; Boeing, Airbus, and many other industry leaders wouldn’t be as invested in it as they are now it if it weren’t proven, certified and cost-effective in the right applications.Secondly, the powdered metals used with direct metal laser sintering (DMLS), electron beam melting (EBM), direct energy deposition
Oil Spill Detection: Remote Sensing Equipment Tested
Operating Picture’, integrating data from each of the technology partner’s equipment as well as oil spill modeling platforms and satellite feeds. The main surveillance tools and providers involved in the exercise included: Radar and optical satellite imagery (MDA, Earth-I, Airbus, Telespazio) Infra-red and Ultraviolet sensors on the OSRL UKCS aircraft (2Excel Aviation) Airborne hyperspectral sensors (2Excel Aviation) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) (Sky Futures and Bristow Group) Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) (Blue Ocean Monitoring and Planet Ocean)
New Drones Are Being Developed for the French Navy
The future tactical component of France’s Naval Aerial Drone (Système de Drones Aériens de la Marine - SDAM) program is being designed by DCNS and Airbus Helicopters, who have joined forces to pool naval and aerospace skills and expertise. The teaming of DCNS and Airbus Helicopters will be equipped to address all technical challenges arising from the naval integration of the drones through the creation of a robust system architecture that can evolve and adapt to meet every need, the developers said. For DCNS, drones are the roving eyes of the battle system; their
Crashed EgyptAir Plane Located on the Seafloor
The cockpit voice recorder from EgyptAir flight MS804 has been retrieved by search teams in a breakthrough for investigators seeking to explain what caused the plane to crash into the sea killing all 66 people on board. The Airbus A320 plunged into the Mediterranean early on May 19 on its way from Paris to Cairo. Since then, search teams have worked against the clock to recover the two black box recorders crucial to explaining what went wrong, before they stop emitting signals in about a week. Egypt's investigation committee said in a statement that a specialist vessel owned
Statoil to Decide on Scottish Floating Wind Farm in September
off the south-west coast in 2009, had an average efficiency rate of 40.7 percent during 2010-2014, and produced 8.2 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year, data from Statoil showed. In Britain, Statoil plans to use Siemens turbines with 75 metre long blades -- comparable with a wing span of an Airbus 380 aircraft -- to boost efficiency. Statoil established a separate business division in low carbon and renewable energy in May, reflecting its aspiration to gradually complement its oil and gas portfolio. The firm has also been conducting a feasibility study for floating wind in
The World’s Cold Ocean Lab
companies also have a considerable presence in Newfoundland and Labrador. Oil producers such as ExxonMobil, Chevron, Husky Energy, Statoil, and Suncor have been active in the province’s abundant oil fields for decades. As announced recently, Provincial Aerospace (PAL) is partnering with Airbus to bid on Canada’s upcoming Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue contract. Major names like Fugro are adding further strength to the mix. Technip Group is another world player that is seeing increasing activity in the province, where it has held an office – the center of its Canadian
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