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Orbital rocket launches from Western Europe for first time
German startup Isar Aerospace launched its Spectrum rocket from Andøya Spaceport in Norway today, marking the first-ever vertical orbital rocket…
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After Northvolt, Europe’s battery path leads to China — or new tech frontiers
Fuelled by $15bn in financing, Northvolt was supposed to be Europe’s great battery success story — a homegrown champion capable…
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4 European satellite firms are vying to replace Starlink in Ukraine
EU governments are in talks with four European satellite firms about providing a back-up service for Starlink in Ukraine, as…
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Dutch hospitality scaleup Mews doubles down on growth with $75M raise
Hospitality scaleup Mews, based at TNW City in Amsterdam, has secured $75mn in its third major cash injection of the…
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German defence ministry asks startup to build hypersonic spaceplane
Germany’s armed forces have commissioned Bremen-based startup Polaris to develop a two-stage, fully reusable hypersonic space plane — and given…
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UK forges new radiation-resistant steel in step forward for fusion energy startups
Scientists in the UK have forged 5.5 tonnes of a new kind of steel capable of withstanding the searing heat…
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Swave, the startup building true holographic smart glasses, bags €27M
In the 1977 Star Wars film A New Hope, there’s an iconic scene where the beloved droid R2-D2 casts a…
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German startup behind electric ‘microliner’ lands €14M cash runway
Munich-based startup Vaeridion has secured €14mn to develop an electric aircraft that it hopes will whisk passengers on short-haul routes…
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Tokamak Energy gets US, UK backing for $52M fusion reactor upgrade
Just two weeks since raising $125mn in funding, British scaleup Tokamak Energy has secured backing from the US and UK…
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Spanish startup edges closer to Europe’s first private orbital rocket launch
PLD Space has secured an €11mn loan to help fund the development of a liftoff site for its partially reusable…
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