Osprey

• World-leading flat-panel satellite antenna company, Kymeta ( www.kymetacorp.com ), announced today at AUSA 2023 Annual Meeting and Exposition the launch of the Osprey u8 HGL, a hybrid geostationary/low Earth orbit (GEO/LEO) terminal purpose-built for military users.
• This marks the first commercially available multi-orbit terminal and the first multi-orbit terminal on Eutelsat Group’s LEO network.
• Kymeta is taking orders now, with the first shipments set to go out in early Q1 2024.
• With the Osprey u8 HGL, Kymeta will deliver truly resilient, auto-PACE ready communications for the armed forces to meet the demands of challenging and rugged military environments.

• The brand will mark its golden anniversary in 2024 by dropping a dynamic wave of new products across its technical pack range, honoring boundary-pushing performance.
• In tandem with its pursuit for quality, Osprey is advancing its holistic sustainability efforts with its 12 core technical product families carrying prestigious certified bluesign® Product designations by spring 2024.
• Osprey introduced its Extended Fit (EF) line in 2022 to deliver a more inclusive fit and optimized performance for bigger bodies.
• The Osprey Packs spring 2024 collection will be available beginning in February 24 at osprey.com and at specialty retailers in over 60 countries worldwide.

• At the weekend a V-22 Osprey aircraft crashed on Melville Island north of Darwin.
• The Osprey is a relatively new type of aircraft, with a patchy track record for safety.

What is the V-22 Osprey?

• The Osprey has long been controversial, initially for its high cost and long development time, and in recent years for safety concerns.
• The Osprey is at the leading edge of aviation technology, with nothing else in operational service like it.

Why is the Osprey so useful?

• The Marine Corps is famous for landing soldiers across beaches during combat but in the modern era this is difficult.
• The Osprey solves this by allowing amphibious ships to remain hundreds of kilometres at sea and launch assaults onto the beach “from over the horizon”.
• The Marines first brought the Osprey into service in 2007, and it has been central to the adoption of a whole new way of war.

Why is the Osprey’s safety record so patchy?

• The downside of being leading-edge technology is having little historical experience of similar aircraft to fall back on.
• Every Osprey flight is a learning event for the pilots, the maintenance personnel and the aircraft’s manufacturer.
• The central concern today is flying safety and here the Osprey has a mixed record.

Will the Osprey get safer?

• As the Osprey has flown more, more knowledge has been gained and the accident rate has declined.
• This all compares very unfavourably with American civil aviation, which has a much better safety record.
• Historically, the safety record of revolutionary aircraft like the Osprey improves as more operating experience is gained and unknown technical problems are found and addressed.

Will we see more tiltrotors like the Osprey in future?

• The US Army has chosen a new generation tiltrotor, the V-280 Valor, to replace its ageing Blackhawk helicopters.
• Tiltrotors like the Osprey and its successors are likely to fly in Australian skies well into the future.

• Wallbox (NYSE: WBX), a leading provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management solutions worldwide, today announced that it has reached the important milestone of selling more than 1,000 of its industry leading Supernova DC fast chargers.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230706716475/en/
  Wallbox Reaches Sales of Over 1,000 Supernova DC Fast Chargers (Photo: Business Wire)
  Introduced last year, and now sold to more than 80 customers across 30 countries, this achievement highlights the rapid adoption of Wallbox’s innovative technology, which increases reliability while providing a flexible power upgrade path.
• We’ve introduced and scaled our innovative DC fast charger into one of the leading platforms in the market today, with customer commitments of more than 12,000 units,” said Enric Asunción, co-founder and CEO of Wallbox.
• Its latest generation, Supernova 180, has been designed specifically for the North American market and will support up to 180 kW of charging speed.