The UK has a new regional space cluster: the West of Scotland Space Cluster, the launch of which coincides with the arrival of Space-Comm Expo Scotland at the SEC Glasgow. West of Scotland Space Cluster The organisation – as with other clusters – will comprise local industries, education establishments, and regional development agencies. The region’s capabilities extend, it highlighted, from ...
Scotland is welcoming its biggest ever space industry event next week: the inaugural Space-Comm Expo Scotland, at SEC Glasgow over 11-12 September. The organisers are expecting 3,000 delegates and 70 exhibitors, as well as 100 speakers including representatives from the European Space Agency, the UK Space Agency, and Ministers from the UK and Scottish Governments. “There are currently an estimated ...
Scottish Renewables has joined the steering board of SusWind, the wind turbine blade recycling programme started in 2021 by the UK’s National Composites Centre (NCC) and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult. On the steering board, “Scottish Renewables joins The Crown Estate, Crown Estate Scotland, BVG Associates, RenewableUK, ZeroWaste Scotland, Net Zero Technology Centre and Vestas”, said NCC. “Collectively, they ...
The UK Space Agency is funding five Scottish space sector projects, to the tune of £10.9 million, it has announced at the Farnborough International Airshow. There are two larger scale projects involving a sub-orbital rocket test by HyImpulse UK from the SaxaVord spaceport in Shetland, and Spire Global developing technology to supply unique weather forecasting data. There are also three ...
Orbex, a UK spaceflight company, has raises £16.7m investment from six backers in an update to its Series C funding round. The funding will help Orbex ramp up the development of Prime, its 19-metre long, two-stage rocket for transporting small satellites into Low Earth Orbit, says the Forres-based company. The aim is to ensure full readiness for its launch period, ...
SaxaVord, in the the Shetland Islands, has been officially granted a spaceport licence by UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The site – on the Lamba Ness peninsula site in Unst, on the northerly coast of the islands – becomes the UK’s first licensed vertical launch spaceport as Spaceport Cornwall was previously licensed for horizontal launches using rockets from a modified ...
A programme of orbital rocket launches by HyImpulse Technologies, a launch services provider, is due to be hosted by SaxaVord Spaceport, on the Shetland Islands. These space launches will be due to take place “from late 2025” at the site located on the Lamba Ness peninsula site in Unst. Although HyImpulse will attempt its maiden sub-orbital launch early next year ...
The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts - their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes or anything else in the wide world of electronics that caught their eye…
Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) – the Bavarian rocket startup which will be launching from the Shetland Islands – has successfully hot fired its upper stage for a full duration test, it reports. It says this marks the completion of an Integrated System Test (IST) campaign in which a staged-combustion Helix engine was integrated into an upper stage tank system and ...
Graphene-like foam sensors from Stirlingshire-based Integrated Graphene can detect lactate concentrations for medical and fitness applications, according to research at the University of Bath. The company describes its patented substrate as “a three-dimensional carbon-based nano-material consisting of twisted multi-layers of atoms arranged in a honeycomb structure”. To form a lactate-detecting electrode, boronic acid was absorbed into the foam, and then ...
Electronics Weekly Electronics Design & Components Tech News
