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What caught our eye? Taiwan styling itself as 'AI island' at Embedded World in Nuremberg, Ubitium developing a universal embedded Risc-V processor, and RFA moving closer to SaxaVord Spaceport launches...

Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), the Bavarian space rocket startup planning to launch from Shetland, is delivering stages of its RFA ONE launch vehicle to SaxaVord spaceport. Specifically, the first and second stages of the rocket have now been delivered, an important milestone towards the first test flight, RFA highlights. The first orbital launch is planned for “summer 2026”, but note ...

Skyrora, the UK rocket manufacturer, is looking to buy ‘select assets’ from the rocket launch company Orbex, which is going into administration. Those assets include Orbex’s unfinished spaceport at Sutherland where work was stopped in 2024. “Skyrora believes that securing select assets is vital to preserving UK space capability, protecting national critical infrastructure and ensuring that technology and IP developed ...

Aurora Avionics, the Scottish space startup, has signed a £525,000 agreement with Pangea Propulsion to supply its avionics system for Pangea’s ARCOS engine. ARCOS ARCOS is described as the world’s first aerospike engine to successfully fire using sustainable propellants. And Edinburgh-based Aurora highlights the significance of the deal: “We have wanted to work with the Pangea Propulsion team since founding ...

This week we're talking about Nvidia quarterly revenues reaching $47bn, material scientists at Rice University making a breakthrough, and the appointment of a new CEO at the Saxavord Spaceport in the Shetlands...

An Nvidia and OpenAI initiative, the reported low yield  of Intel's 18A process, the reconfigurable hardware of Efficient Computer, and Skyrora securing a CAA space launch licence for the UK...

Skyrora has become the first British manufacturer to receive a launch licence for a commercial vehicle. It is for its suborbital rocket Skylark L. CAA The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has awarded the licence to the Edinburgh-based company. It is hoping to launch from the SaxaVord spaceport on Shetland, but the licence covers any UK site. “Becoming the first ...

CSignum, a startup for wireless IoT communications from beneath the surface, has completed a £6 million Series A funding round. The Edinburgh company says the investment will accelerate growth of its EM-2 family of products. These use patented electromagnetic field signalling (EMFS) for communicating through challenging sub-surface environments. For example, through water, ice, soil, rock and concrete to networks above ...

Saxavord, the Shetlands spaceport, is highlighting its role for future sovereign space launches. At the SpaceComm expo in London, the spaceport and the German company Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) announced they will be supporting the launch of intelligence monitoring and gathering satellites as well as commercial satellites into orbit. In other words, governmental launches for defence and information gathering. The ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is funding £10 million for new facilities at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (ATC), the research institute in Edinburgh. Specifically, new lab spaces will be built to assemble optical benches. These are for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, investigating gravitational waves in space. The investment will approximately double UK ATC’s construction capabilities. Optical ...