Distressed commercial assets, industry consolidation, red-hot defense niches and macroeconomics will lead to an interesting year in M&As.

Integrating electric propulsion; Jaunt advances Journey; Leonardo’s cargo drone; Finnish e-fuel research; smart rotors for eVTOL.

Universal Hydrogen, a startup aiming to provide fuel systems and logistics for zero-emission commercial aviation, has landed former Airbus CEO Tom Enders as a strategic advisor and secured investment from Trucks Venture Capital.

Veteran aerospace engineer and former Boeing CEO Phil Condit has joined the advisory council of Boom Supersonic, the Denver, Colorado-based high-speed airliner developer.

How Lufthansa Technik maintains a rare Boeing 747SP for NASA and DLR.

Single-aisle production is planned to rise by the end of the year as Airbus awaits the inflection point toward market recovery.

UAE’s Hope and China’s Tianwen-1 open new chapters in Mars exploration.

SOCOM plans Armed Overwatch buy; GBSD moves past initial review; GE engine to power Italian helo and Denmark bolsters Arctic defenses.