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,…
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Wellnex Life gets access to medicinal cannabis market Health and wellness product company Wellnex Life has gained access to the medicinal cannabis market, with its joint venture partner OneLife Botanicals acquiring medicinal cannabis producer MediPharm Australia. Wellnex hopes to enter the market by the end of 2022 and be one of the first to market…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Defence, space and communications manufacturer Electro Optic Systems has again failed to come to an agreement with major shareholder Washington H. Soul Pattinson that would secure its financial future. The company, whose share price has plunged as it faces a massive need for capital, is negotiating with WHSP a longer-term financing structure. The Canberra company…
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The federal government has released an audit of major defence projects which shows big slippages in delivery schedules and major cost over runs. The government put a positive spin on the figures saying that it was ‘moving to rectify significant and systemic issues in the delivery of crucial Defence capabilities’. However this is difficult to…
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By Bruce Mountain, Victoria University If future historians pick a point in time when Australia comprehensively turned its back on coal-fired generation, they may well point to AGL’s decision to bring forward the closure of Loy Yang A, the cheapest (excluding emission costs) power generator in the energy market spanning eastern Australia. AGL announced on…
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SMEs developing new cybersecurity solutions have been invited to join the free CSIRO-run “Innovate to Grow” R&D support program, which runs for ten weeks and begins December 1. The CSIRO said on Monday that new solutions were required to combat the rising incidence of cybercrime, with reported incidents up 13 per cent during the 2020-21…
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QuantX Labs has reached a major milestone in the development of its flagship technology, the Sapphire Cryogenic Clock or Cryoclock for short. Following nearly two years of work upgrades and improvements, the technology has passed through a full acceptance testing and is ready for inclusion into the Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN). JORN is a…
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