Chelmsford-based Teledyne e2v has won a €42m European Space Agency (ESA) contract to develop highly sensitive light detectors for the upcoming PLATO mission to hunt exoplanets. 

Aerospace engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) claim to have developed an algorithm to help drones navigate around obstacles at high speeds without crashing.

The world’s first all-electric jet engine, which promises to double the range of electric aircraft compared to current hybrid models, is being developed in Scotland.

Warwick University has been granted £2.2m to investigate a new type of solar cell material which could be used in space to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

Burnaston is to host Toyota Circular Factory, an initiative from Toyota Motor Europe (TME) to recycle, repurpose and remanufacture parts from vehicles at the end of their life.

A consortium including British Airways and Shell is hoping to build Europe’s first waste-to-jet-fuel plant at Immingham in North East Lincolnshire.

A new £1.5bn Teesside plant that will convert up to one million tonnes of household waste into jet fuel each year is planned to be operational in 2028.

Researchers are developing a wireless sensor network (WSN) designed to spot faults in electricity sub-stations that can lead to power cuts.