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This Week: Why Ireland's late start in space is now its edge. Insights from ESA Phi-Lab Ireland's Rob Conway-Kenny

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This Week: Réaltra eyes raise, and a Brussels scare for Irish scale-ups

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This Week: Ubotica, Mbryonics and ESA opportunities for Irish graduates

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Isar Aerospace goes for orbit again tonight from Norway - a successful launch would make Spectrum the first privately built European rocket to reach space. In Galway, Mbryonics lays out a production roadmap targeting tens of thousands of optical terminals by 2028, backed by €17.5 million in funding and a growing list of customers including DARPA and ESA. Meanwhile, Manna's $50 million raise puts 300 STEM jobs into the Irish labour market over the next 18 months.

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News, Explainers And Irish Angles On The Space Economy

Dublin's Pilot Photonics picked up two wins at OFC 2026 in Los Angeles, landing a deal with UK startup Finchetto and joining an industry standards body alongside Microsoft. The European Commission opened its €91 million Horizon Europe space call with a September deadline - we break down where Irish companies fit. And Cork has a stake in a ‘Lost in Space’ comeback story...

EIC Accelerator Overhaul

Ireland's student rocketry programme reaches a new milestone, Europe's most commercial space gathering sends a clear message on supply chains and compliance, and a cluster of EU funding deadlines - including one closing in two weeks.News, Explainers, and Irish Angles on the Space Economy.

Phi-Lab Ireland's First Tenants

Irish firms are turning up in some unexpected places - inside the structure of a gravitational wave detector, on the floor at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, at a semiconductor expo in Seoul. Northern Ireland’s ‘space ready’ firms are at London’s Space-Comm Expo en masse. There’s a notable funding deadline on March 27 and Phi-Lab in Mullingar has named its first two Irish tenants.

€42 Million, 6 Months, 3 Calls: A Plain-English Guide to Horizon Europe's March Space Round

Three Horizon Europe space calls worth nearly €42 million open on 10 March - and the government has just launched an action plan to help Irish SMEs land a bigger share. We break down what's on offer and how to start a bid. Plus: Phi-Lab Mullingar reveals its first two tenants, and Constellr's €37 million round shows where European defence money is heading.News, Explainers, and Irish Angles on the Space Economy.