Raytheon UK will supply the British Army with a high energy laser weapon, due to undergo testing at the end of 2024 (Raytheon) By Tim Martin, Published by Breaking Defense, 9 October 2023 “I think once we get towards the end of next year, and they [the MoD] really do
By John Ferguson, Published by Daily Record, 8 October 2023 SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: Michael Haston was lauded when his private equity firm took a multi-million pound stake in the government-backed rocket launch centre on Shetland in 2020. A self-proclaimed “wonderkid” exposed by the Sunday Mail after becoming a major investor
Protesters say spaceports could cause environmental harm in Scotland (Image: NQ) By Ross Hunter, Published by The National, 3 October 2023 CAMPAIGNERS are calling on the Scottish Government to withdraw support for new spaceports in Scotland. Protesters from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and Drone Wars UK appeared outside Holyrood
By Daniel Boffey, Published by The Guardian, 21 September 2023 Sweden is leading in a battle to be the first European space base outside Russia to launch a satellite into orbit First place is “nice but it’s not necessary”, says Stefan Gustafsson, a senior official at the Sweden Space Corporation
A British soldier tests a robotic dog. (Photo: MoD) By Richard Norton-Taylor, Published by Declassified UK, 12 September 2023 The Ministry of Defence is spending billions of pounds on artificial intelligence programmes to develop new lethal weapons - while refusing to disclose all its AI projects. The Ministry of Defence
UK Space Agency chief executive Paul Bate in Shetland at the weekend. Photo: Hans J Marter/Shetland News By Hans J Marter, Published by Shetland News, 11 September 2023 THE CHIEF executive of the UK Space Agency has expressed his confidence that SaxaVord could well be the UK spaceport that hosts
By George Allison, Published by UK Defence Journal, 4 September 2023 The Ministry of Defence has issued a Prior Information Notice to industry, signalling an intent to “accelerate and exploit at pace DEW as an emerging technology.” The notice serves as an advisory for a potential upcoming contract to tender
By George Allison, Published by UK Defence Journal, 26 August 2023 The UK Space Agency has unveiled the first beneficiaries of its £20 million International Bililateral Fund. The initiative is aimed at fostering collaborations between UK organisations and their counterparts from the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, India, Singapore, South Africa,
