Aerospace & Defence

Boom Supersonic, the company building the world’s fastest airliner, announced at the Paris Air Show significant advances on Overture, its sustainable supersonic aircraft, including milestones for its Symphony engine.

The Science Museum, alongside major funder the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering and major sponsor MathWorks, has been working tirelessly to bring ‘Engineers’ to life – a new permanent exhibition on display opening on Friday 23rd June – to fall in-line with International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) – with the goal of bringing the human aspect of engineering to the fore.

A new funding injection from the UK Space Agency will boost UK-based space technologies, focusing on innovations such as harnessing solar power for reusable spacecraft and new propulsion systems.

Airbus and STMicroelectronics have signed an agreement to cooperate on power electronics research & development to support more efficient and lighter power electronics, essential for future hybrid-powered aircraft and full-electric urban air vehicles.

Orbital Composites (Orbital), an advanced manufacturing company building next-generation robotic factories for Earth and space, is thrilled to announce a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Virtus Solis Technologies (Virtus), an early-stage deep tech startup, offering the first megawatt (MW)-scale commercial space-based solar power (SBSP) station.

Virgin Galactic announced the start of commercial spaceline operations. The first commercial spaceflight, ‘Galactic 01,’ is planned to fly between June 27-June 30, 2023.

On Monday 19 June 2023, Venturi Group presented its latest invention at the international Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, France: a hyper-deformable lunar wheel.

Skyrora has begun a series of full-duration tests to qualify the updated design of its 70kN engine for its first commercial orbital launch.

Designed for military and security applications, the ODU AMC Series T offers three compatible locking options: Push-Pull, Break-Away, and Thread-Lock on one device part.

TTTech and STMicroelectronics celebrate 7 years of collaboration in the space sector, in which many developments have taken place.