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165 Years of Technology and Innovation 165 YEARS OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION JANUARY 2021 Green sky thinking Why hydrogen is at the heart of plans to decarbonise civil aviation 22 30 50 TheEngineerUK theengineeruk The Engineer UK interview: THALES UK CEO Alex moon spiders: The uk space startup late great engineers: the hard cresswell on why it’s a great time hoping to the put the first crawl- life and times of soviet rocket man to be an engineer ing robot on the lunar surface Sergei korolev The most advanced 3D CAD software just got better. GET A FREE TRIAL TODAY Speak to a member of our team or scan the code. 01926 333 777 solidsolutions.co.uk/trial ESTABLISHED 1856 165 CONTENTS YEARS OF TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION VOLUME 301 • ISSUE 7923 • January 2021 22 32 12 30 52 26 50 4 Editor’s Comment 10 NEWS analysis 22 INTERVIEW 34 tech trends Uncertainty or certainty, that is the Could engineering SMEs help lead the Thales UK CEO Alex Cresswell on the A selection of articles from The question for 2021 UK’s post-pandemic recovery? career opportunities presented by Engineer’s recent Tech Trends digital current and future challenges supplement 6 NEWS 12 cover story UCL team develops wearable cap for How hydrogen is at the heart of 26 expert Q&A 50 Late great engineers monitoring baby brain activity ambitious plans to decarbonise civil An expert panel discusses the benefi ts The hard life and times of the aviation and practicalities of reshoring legendary Soviet rocket engineer 7 NEWS Sergei Korolev Haptic fi ngertip prosthesis could deliver 17 viewpoint 30 Space exploration sensation to amputees Markforged engineer Jeremy Drew on UK startup Spacebit hopes to put the 52 archive how the pandemic has accelerated fi rst British built spacecraft on the The untimely demise of the iconic 8 NEWS additive manufacturing adoption surface of the moon UK aircraft maker Handley Page Space debris fi rm gets ready to demonstrate satellite 20 talking point 32 Product Q&A 55 Digest removal technology Could road-charging pay for the fuel Expert insight from leading names in the Complete our monthly crossword duty lost through the switch to EVs? world of additive manufacturing COVER Image: Airbus Editor & Publisher Jon Excell Commercial director Justyn Gidley Production News 020 8076 0576 +44 (0)20 8076 0575 +44 (0)20 7738 5454 Kyri Apostolou Display 020 8076 0582 [email protected] [email protected] +44 (0)20 807 6779 Recruitment 020 8076 0581 [email protected] Senior reporter Andrew Wade Business development manager UK subscriptions £75 pa UK/£117 pa overseas. +44 (0)20 7738 5454 andrew.wade@ Paul Tilston Publishing director Paul Fanning Contact comments@ theengineer.co.uk. markallengroup.com +44 (0)20 7738 5454 [email protected] All rights reserved. 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WE’VE As the fi ndings of our annual business confi dence survey reveal (p34) industry’s The Engineer UK confi dence about the next twelve months is inextricably bound up with the LEARNT implications of Brexit, and the outcome of the current talks will have a profound THIS impact on the UK’s industrial economy over the months and years ahead. ENGINEER JOBS A deal - even one which is inferior to the current trading relationship - should ISSUE Find your next engineering job online at The EngineerJobs spell an end to four-and-a-half years of uncertainty, give businesses a clear view of the climate in which they must now operate and – it is to be hoped - enable us all to UK government 1 to invest £12bn move on from an issue that has toxifi ed UK society and damaged its international in “green revolution” standing. If no deal is done, however, all bets are off . Post Brexit trade talks between the UK Engineering and EU will drag on. Uncertainty will reign. And a government that has routinely 2 SMEs are dismissed the concerns of the business community and which - in the space of less creating jobs three than 12 months – has moved from promising an “oven-ready deal” to talk of deploying times faster than gun ships in the Channel, will surely have some serious questions to answer. larger organisations Along with the vast majority of engineering companies, trade bodies, and 77 per cent of professional engineers, The Engineer hopes and prays that this la er scenario has 3 The Engineer MISSION been avoided by the time this article lands. readers are opposed But one thing that’s certain - as we’ve seen over the past 12 months – is that to road charging STATEMENT whatever challenges it faces, the UK’s manufacturing and engineering base will The aim of do its best to adapt to the circumstances it fi nds itself in, however unwelcome and 4 Hydrogen has unhelpful they might be. the same The Engineer energy level as We’ve seen a compelling illustration of this inherent resilience in the entries to is to champion kerosene with one and promote The Engineer’s 2020 Collaborate to Innovate awards, which comes to its conclusion third of the weight next month. 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