Friday’s wire leaned hard toward capital going into physical things. Reactors, cathode plants, industrial printers. The AI announcements were there too, but they had a different shape than they did a year ago, and that shift is the more interesting story. Hardware got the big cheques Antares picked up a $161 million Strategic Breakthrough Award to demonstrate a space reactor. That is a demonstration contract, not a production one, and the gap between those two things has swallowed plenty of nuclear programs before.

After conducting a successful cold-flow test, the aerospace startup has been cleared for a 60-second burn, now scheduled for Friday, September 6 at 4 PM September 5, 2024 – BRUNSWICK, Maine – bluShift Aerospace announced this evening that it has successfully run its latest cold flow test and is now in the clear to conduct a full flight-duration test of its proprietary MAREVL™ rocket engine. The successful cold flow test wrapped up at 6:45 PM EST, clearing the way for a full duration test tomorrow.

Aachen/Berlin, June 2024 – FEV, a globally leading engineering service provider for sustainable innovations and technologies in the fields of mobility, energy, and software, is expanding its service portfolio and launches FEV aerospace at Europe’s leading aerospace trade fair ILA Berlin. The new brand brings together the company’s engineering and consulting expertise to make an even more targeted contribution to the sustainability of the aerospace sector in the future. “The inception of FEV aerospace is a logical and important strategic step to officially communicate and offer FEV’s expertise and many years of experience in this complex field to the outside world,” said Dr.

KEMBLE, England and HOLLISTER, Calif., Nov. 27, 2023 - ZeroAvia today announced that it has completed its Series C funding round at a total of $116m. The UK Infrastructure Bank joins the round as a cornerstone-level investor alongside co-leads Airbus, Barclays Sustainable Impact Capital and NEOM Investment Fund (NIF) as announced in September, with the Series C round set to accelerate the company’s journey to certification of its first engines and advance R&D that will scale the clean propulsion technology for larger aircraft.