On the hunt for successful Australasian technology scale-ups, the UK Department for International Trade (DIT) has launched its Tech Rocketship Awards in Australia and New Zealand.

Soon, the company will be able to launch from the US and New Zealand

27 Sep : 20:23 | Jetpack-maker Martin Aircraft has let go nearly all its staff, a person close to the company tells the Herald reports Business writer Chris Keall.

The UK’s Tech Rocketship Awards offer Australian and New Zealand technology scale-ups a new launch-pad for their global expansion.

Rocket Lab, a US orbital launch provider for the small satellite industry, has confirmed it will launch two Electron rockets just weeks apart in late 2018.

New Zealand’s commercial market for drones is booming, largely thanks to a collaborative approach by its Civil Aviation Authority.

Witnesses say the small plane appeared to catch fire before entering a vertical dive and crashing into a cornfield near Budapest, Hungary. Just before the crash, the plane was flying at low altitude. Investigators have yet to determine the cause of the crash. The plane was semi-aerobatic, but it is unclear if the pilot was performing a maneuver at the time.

New University of Canterbury research has the potential to make it easier, faster and cheaper to launch a rocket, with wide-ranging benefits for other technology.

US orbital launch provider Rocket Lab has  confirmed the new launch window for the upcoming ‘It’s Business Time’ mission. The 14-day launch window will open from 23 June to 6 July (NZST), with launch opportunities between 12:30 – 16:30 NZST daily (00:30 – 04:30 UTC).

Dezeen today releases a short documentary, called Elevation,  setting out how drones could revolutionise the way people travel, transform how buildings are designed and built, and radically alter the form cities take. Elevation also discusses the impact of drones on the construction industry, how flying machines will construct buildings - presenting recent experiments where drones are used to lay bricks to create structures or weave cables to manufacture a bridge. "I believe there will be a huge impact on the built environment once we actually start using these machines in construction," says Ammar Mirjan, a researcher at Gramazio Kohler Research at…

The Amazon founder, who is also the world's richest man, recently revealed his plans to spend almost every dollar of his incredible wealth on space travel. In an interview with Business Insider, Bezos said he was now spending around $1.3 billion each year on his space exploration company, Blue …