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Some of the UK's brightest young engineers will come together this month at the historic site of Britain's Cold War rocket programme for the climax of the world's biggest student rocket firing competition. More than 300 students from 32 universities will gather at the Westcott Enterprise Zone near Aylesbury, [...]

Six space related start-up businesses have been given a boost thanks to a pioneering new innovation voucher scheme at Westcott. Astron Systems, Naicker Scientific, Coates Electronics, Longbow Space Technologies, SAWiE and Rocket Engineering Limited have all joined the Westcott Launchpad Programme aimed at encouraging start-up, SME and large businesses [...]

Satellite Applications Catapult have completed upgrades to its Drone Test and Development Centre. Additions include a new 10m drone cage with fixed drone tethers, a new sensor test range and newly built drone development lab offering workshop space. The Drone Test and Development Centre offers a secure environment to [...]

Westcott based Plastron Immersive, is seeing a return on its investment in training thanks to funding support from Buckinghamshire Growth Board. With initial funding from Buckinghamshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) of £15,000, now managed by the Buckinghamshire Growth Board following the transition of the LEP into Buckinghamshire Council last [...]

A Buckinghamshire-based SME is playing a crucial role in the upcoming launch of a pioneering international climate satellite. A team from European Astrotech, based at Westcott, has returned from the spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, where they successfully completed the delicate process of fuelling the Biomass satellite ahead of [...]

Silverstone Enterprise Zone occupier Lunaz has reported a huge surge in demand for its electrified classic cars in Europe, the USA and Middle East. Orders for its electrified models such as Aston Martin, Bentley, Jaguar, Range Rover and Rolls-Royce models destined for international markets – including the US, UAE, [...]

The Digital Manufacturing Centre (DMC), an industry-leading production facility and additive manufacturing (AM) innovation hub, hosted the latest UK MOD Strategic Command’s Additive Manufacturing innovation event, on 5 March 2025. This MOD/industry collaborative event was held at DMC’s state-of-the-art AM production facility, located at the world-renowned Silverstone Park. The [...]

A Drone Test and Development Centre (DTDC), launched in 2023 at Westcott Venture Park in Buckinghamshire by partner organisation Satellite Applications Catapult, is undergoing a major upgrade to its facilities to increase its capacity and capabilities.  Drone companies will now be able to test their products and solutions at [...]

Silverstone Enterprise Zone business occupiers featured in a Sky TV programme focusing on innovation and collaboration on Sunday 9 February. ‘Building an Innovation Hub’ aired on Sky channel 588 and will be repeated on Sunday 2 March (part of the channel’s ‘business hour’). The 20-minute programme dives into how [...]

Diva Patang, one of Afghanistan’s leading businesswomen in Europe, is to dramatically increase the size of her e-commerce business Diva Group’s presence at Silverstone. Diva Group is in the process of moving from its 33,000 sq ft premises to newer 100,000 sq ft industrial accommodation at the innovation and [...]