The nondilutive financial support from Invest Victoria will support Dovetail’s development of electrified propulsion systems for regional aircraft.

The company is currently assembling its first fourth-generation Aero2 X2.3 pre-series aircraft, with plans to build two more this year and several more in 2025.

Amprius introduced the SiCore battery in January as a companion to its SiMaxx silicon-nanowire technology.

The company plans to start launching the spacecraft for customers in 2026, with a prototype of the satellite to launch in 2025.

The Aerospace Technology Institute was set up largely to allocate government money to projects intended to future-proof the UK’s civil aerospace sector.

Max Space sees its inflatable structures as useful for building orbiting space stations in Earth orbit, but habitats in cislunar space, on the Moon and Mars.

At stake is avoiding large quantities of CO2 emissions, as cirrus cloud-forming contrails total an estimated one-third of aviation’s harmful climate impact.

The bench is a flight simulator built to the fidelity required for certification testing of both hardware and software that will then go to the aircraft.