108 temperature shocks and exposure to sand, dust, salt fog, vibration and more. The two motors passed the testing standards, pre-qualifying them such that certificates can be issued to NOVA 15 and NOVA 4 customers for use during aerospace certification of their vehicles. Greiner gestured us toward a display of one of the tested motors placed next to a brand-new counterpart for direct, oneto-one comparison. “You can see there’s almost zero visible wear around its closed housing. Naturally, if you’d put an openhousing motor through the same test regimen, it’d be worn beyond recognition – so we’re very happy with the result.” The company has also reconfigured its product portfolio to better address varying scales of customer needs. Hence, it now offers more than 30 different electric motor product designs as COTS products for customers satisfied with standardised versions, ‘MOTS’ (modified off-theshelf) products for customers needing different kV variations of the COTS motors, or ‘FC’ (fully custom) motors that will be ‘built to spec’ as needed, to suit the more complex batches of requirements that some customers will have. Systel Inc., the Houston-based rugged computer designer/ manufacturer, has unveiled a new version of its Sparrow-Strike rugged computer, which integrates an Intel x86 Atom CPU SMARC module, as counterpart to the already-released version running on NVIDIA’s Orin NX. “We’ve done the same with our KiteStrike series computers, now with both AGX Orin and x86 versions available; which one is ‘better’ for users comes down to their software and OS choices,” said Sam Gidel from Systel Inc. “The x86 version will especially appeal to customers that have thin-client applications, or need to run Windows, or have legacy software, or just a lowpower control application like talking to some I/Os and monitoring some sensors. In general, the x86 CPU is lower-power and a little less pricey than the Orin NX.” The new x86-based Sparrow-Strike is product-coded as the EC2010 (the Orin NX version is the EC2000), with both products weighing 3 lb (1.36 kg), running on 28 VDC input, and ruggedised to milspec standards for safe operations in environments from -40 to +55 C. Kyle Cameron from Systel also commented, “We’ve also added a Sparrow-lite model, that incorporates weight-saving practices that have allowed overall weight down to roughly 2.5 lbs [1.34 kg], popular with UAV customers.” Calian has expanded its product portfolio with two new antennas. The first is the TW5398 Full Band Smart Antenna, which integrates u-blox’s new ZED-X20P GNSS receiver, offering tripleband L1/L2/L5 multi-constellation GNSS functionality, plus Galileo E6 HAS and L-Band services. “By integrating the u-blox ZED-X20P with our 60 mm full-band ceramic patch technology, we’re able to offer full-band GNSS capability within the same compact housing portfolio, offering a seamless migration to higher performance,” said Bruce Shields at Calian. The company also discussed its new AJ977XF+, a low-elevation fixed reception pattern antenna (FRPA) for anti-jamming applications. The FRPA system functions using a fixed radiation pattern to attenuate (or ‘null’) signals from the horizon up to 15° above the horizon, offering 20 dB (approximately) wideband suppression for low-elevation interfering signals allowing systems to operate up to 10 times closer to sources of destructive interference or jamming. “The AJ977XF+ is a multi-constellation [GPS/Galileo/GLONASS/Beidou] tripleAugust/September 2025 | Uncrewed Systems Technology Plettenberg has run a successful Mil-Std-810H testing regimen on its NOVA 15 and NOVA 4 inrunner, closed-housing BLDC motors
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