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Britain

OneWeb satellites

British-Indian team puts in a winning $1B bid for OneWeb satellite broadband venture

Update for 12:20 p.m. Nov. 20: OneWeb has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy with a new CEO, Neil Masterson, who… Read More

Red vs. Blue? Britain’s Red Arrows land in Seattle for aerobatics of a different color

Seattle’s Museum of Flight may have put a Blue Angels jet on a pedestal, but today it rolled out the… Read More

Drone test site

Airport drone disruption: It’s happening at Gatwick in London, could it happen here?

Hundreds of flights have been canceled and tens of thousands of airline passengers have been stranded because of the buzz… Read More

Orbex launch

Lockheed Martin wins $31M from UK Space Agency for spaceport in Scotland

Lockheed Martin is in line to receive $31 million (£23.5 million) in grants from the UK Space Agency to establish… Read More

Sutherland launch site

British government selects Scotland’s Sutherland site to be prime U.K. spaceport

The British government has selected a spot in Sutherland, on the A’Mhoine Peninsula in the Scottish Highlands, as the site… Read More

Stephen Hawking memorial

Stephen Hawking gets a cosmic sendoff

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking’s ashes were interred among the greats of British science at Westminster Abbey today — and to mark… Read More

Amazon exec Paul Misener warns that state laws could bog down drone deliveries

A patchwork of state laws governing drone operations would pose a “real problem” for aerial delivery systems like the one… Read More

Drone landing in England

Amazon drone deliveries in England show how small steps add up to a big deal

Amazon’s multimillion-dollar effort to deliver goods via drone currently has just two customers in the English countryside, but this could well… Read More

Amazon delivery drone

Amazon’s delivery drones just might be on the job in 2020 … at least in Britain

Regulators have to work out lots of issues before they let drones start delivering packages routinely, but in Britain at… Read More

Amazon delivery drone

Reporter hunts for Amazon’s drone testing site in Britain, but drones aren’t at home

Amazon is expanding its drone testing operation in the English countryside, to smooth the way for what it hopes will be… Read More

Microsoft Lumia phone

British vote to exit EU throws techies (and the rest of the world) into a tizzy

Just a couple of days ago, longtime Seattle tech entrepreneur Marcelo Calbucci was excited about moving his family to London.… Read More

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