Commercial space flights could launch from a UK spaceport as part of range of measures designed to help shape the future of Britain’s growing space industry.

A British Airways flight from Las Vegas to London Gatwick was aborted yesterday following a ’catastrophic failure’ of the aircraft’s port engine.

Supply chain productivity is to benefit from £53m being invested by government into five new digital manufacturing research centres and projects announced by investment minister Lord Grimstone.

The world’s first deep water offshore windfarm is in the pipeline. Jon Excell reports on an innovation that could have considerable advantages over current technology.

The global market for refrigerated transport is predicted to double by 2025, but growth comes at an environmental cost with cooling accounting for 7 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. This...

Plans to make Britain the world’s most innovative nation by 2030 have been outlined today in the government’s Industrial Strategy white paper.

Thales is to produce electric propulsion systems for geostationary satellites in the UK, following the opening of a new facility in Northern Ireland.

Ground source heat pumps are being proposed as a solution to roads that melt in the summer and potholes formed after freezing and thawing in the winter.

An EU-funded project is attempting to combine high-performance organic electronic circuits with large-area fabrication techniques on a massive scale.

BAA has been granted planning permission to begin construction of the Arup-designed infrastructure for an automated Personal Rapid Transit system at Heathrow Airport.