Full profile interview
17 Mar 2025

United Launch Alliance: SMART
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a major provider of rocket launch services. This profile focuses on SMART (Sensible Modular Autonomous Return Technology), which is currently in development and aims to enable the reusability of the Vulcan Centaur's two BE-4 booster engines.
Background
24 Feb 2025

ATMOS Space Cargo GmbH: Phoenix
ATMOS Space Cargo GmbH is a German aerospace company developing Phoenix, a low Earth orbit capable capsule that will use an inflatable aerodynamic decelerator (IAD) to withstand the atmospheric heating during re-entry. ATMOS intends to use this capability to enable space manufacturing.
Full profile interview
14 Feb 2025

Varda Space Industries
Varda Space Industries is a private American space research company headquartered in California and founded in 2021. The company designs, builds, and flies spacecraft to perform pharmaceutical operations in microgravity of low Earth orbit. It is one of a handful of private space companies to have successfully returned an object from low Earth orbit (along with SpaceX and Boeing).
Full profile interview
10 Feb 2025

Aerogel Technologies
Aerogel Technologies is a US-based manufacturer of aerogels, with a key focus on its polymer aerogel range, Airloy, using a roll-to-roll continuous process.
27 Nov 2024

The Alternative Fuel Cell Technologies are Competing for Market Share
With growing interest into the integration of fuel cells for stationary power, many commercial players have chosen to adopt either proton exchange membrane (PEM) or solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC). However, alternative fuel cell technologies like alkaline fuel cells (AFCs), molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs), phosphoric acid fuel cells (PAFCs) and direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) still compete for market share.
Full profile interview
11 Nov 2024

Flion Energy
Flion Energy is a start-up in the R&D stage and working in collaboration with academic and industry partners on primary and secondary fluoride-ion batteries, primarily for high temperature applications.
Full profile interview
31 Oct 2024

Ascent Solar
Ascent Solar is a US-based thin-film solar manufacturer, focusing on CIGS technology. IDTechEx spoke with Paul Warley, CEO.
Appears in IDTechEx Report

16 Oct 2024
Sensor Market 2025-2035: Technologies, Trends, Players, Forecasts
IDTechEx Report: Dr Tess Skyrme, Dr Jack Howley, Dr Xiaoxi He, Dr Conor O'Brien, Yulin Wang, John Li, Dr Nadia Tsao and Sam Dale