N E W S Rover’s mission to Mars heats up Ben Gerritsen Destination: Mars When: 2020 Rover Instruments: 7 Rover dimensions: 3 metres long 2.7 metres wide 2.2 metres tall Power Transmission “PACKAGED” To Suit Your Needs Worm Gear Motors and Worm Gear Reducers • Modular design with ISO standard flanged input together with output flanges, torque arms, plus simple connection of multiple staged reductions • 100% compatible with ISO flange mounted motors • Lightweight aluminium design • Available in 10 sizes with power ratings .09kW - 15kW and ratios of 7.5:1 to 6,400:1 EN082 RR Fisher & Co Ltd PO Box 23293 Auckland Auckland Ph: 09 278 4059 Fax: 09 279 8286 Christchurch Ph: 03 377 0025 Fax: 03 377 0086 www.engineeringnews.co.nz 9 Engineers Wanted ! Manufacturer of high quality building industry products seeks disciplined and confident individuals to work in the Design Engineering Team. • Product Engineer: 2-5 years industry experience • Product Engineer: 5+ years industry experience • CAD Technician: 3+ years industry experience You will take ownership of product refinement and manufacturing processes after a product’s release by the R&D team, prepare technical drawings and documentation, provide technical support to sales team and provide tailored customer solutions. Solidworks experience essential for all roles. Email CV to: staceyk@csfordoors.co.nz www.linkedin.com/csfordoors www.facebook.com/csfordoors EN079 The next rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 will carry seven carefully-selected instruments to conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations on the 'Red Planet.' The selected proposals have a total value of approximately $US130 million for development of the instruments. The Mars 2020 mission will be based on the design of the highly successful Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, which landed almost two years ago, and currently is operating on Mars. The new rover will carry more sophisticated, upgraded hardware and new instruments to conduct geological assessments of the rover’s landing site, determine the potential habitability of the environment, and directly search for signs of ancient Martian life. The selected payload proposals are: Mastcam Z, an advanced camera system with panoramic and stereoscopic imaging; Super- Cam, an instrument that can provide imaging, chemical composition analysis, and mineralogy; planetary instrument for X-ray lithochemistry (PIXL), an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer; scanning habitable environments with Raman & luminescence for organics and chemicals (SHERLOC), a spectrometer; the Mars oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE), an exploration technology investigation that will produce oxygen from Martian atmospheric carbon dioxide; Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA), a set of sensors that will provide measurements of temperature, wind speed and direction, pressure, relative humidity and dust size and shape. FIRST GAS GETS NEW BOSS New Zealand gas network owner First Gas Ltd has appointed Ben Gerritsen as its general manager commercial and regulation. Since 2010, Mr Gerritsen has been the managing director of Castalia Strategic Advisors advising major New Zealand corporate clients including significant utility companies on commercial and regulatory strategy, economics and finance. A Fulbright Scholar, Mr Gerritsen gained a Masters’ in Public Policy from Georgetown University, Washington, DC, as well as a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Bachelor of Management Studies from Waikato University. “Mr Gerritsen brings an in-depth knowledge of New Zealand regulatory practices to First Gas”, says the company’s ceo, Paul Goodeve. CATAPULTED TO SUCCESS Catapult Software has been appointed as the GE Digital distributor for New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Catapult Software provides software products and services for industrial automation systems. Catapult also provides bespoke software development to enhance GE Digital automation software products. Catapult and GE Digital signed an original equipment manufacturer agreement in April that see’s Catapult’s New Zealand-based software products now shipping with GE’s award-winning iFIX product-line worldwide. Check out the video and image gallery in the digital edition of
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