Optera, a neuromorphic sensing company delivering next-generation space domain awareness (SDA), has raised £3 million to establish and scale its UK headquarters and engineering team.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially adopted ARRAKIHS as its second FAST-class (F2) scientific mission, with the University of Surrey leading the UK’s role in the project to uncover the hidden history of galaxies ahead of a confirmed target launch date of 2030.

At London Tech Week, UK Space Minister Liz Lloyd unveiled more than £19 million to support British companies developing next-generation space technologies.

Tekever and Sapient Perception have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore the integration and evaluation of Sapient Perception’s 10K camera system on Tekever uncrewed aerial systems.

Between commercial aircraft at 10 km and conventional satellites at 500 km lies a band of near-Earth space, called very low earth orbit (or VLEO), which until now, has not been accessible for commercial space flight.

A series of commemorative red plaques will tell the story of Beagle 2, the pioneering British spacecraft that, against all odds, made it to the surface of Mars.