Top Stories of the Week: Aug 8-12

                                  A roundup of this week's top stories:

• Sceye HAPS: Unleashing the potential of the stratosphere

  Sceye, a US-based material science company and manufacturer of High-Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS), has announced that it reached the stratosphere with the aim of demonstrating the ability to remain over an operational area for months at a time...

• Stellantis' European EV sales overtake Tesla, eyes top spot

  Stellantis has comfortably overtaken Tesla in terms of electric vehicle (EV) sales in Europe in the first half of 2022, putting the company into the second spot and lagging not far behind Volkswagen...

• Ørsted demands all suppliers use 100% renewables by 2025

  Denmark's state-owned energy company Ørsted has told its suppliers that, by 2025, it expects them all to use 100% renewable energy, becoming the first energy company to do so...

• Aramco & SABIC awarded first ever blue hydrogen & ammonia certification

  The Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Aramco, and its chemical manufacturing subsidiary SABIC have been awarded the world's first independent accreditation officially recognising its production of "blue" hydrogen and ammonia...

• FCC urges action to clean up space debris

  The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has urged for the issue of space debris to be addressed before space manufacturing ramps up, calling for new regulations in space...