The Horus A is intended for government applications such as surveillance, communications relay, backing up GPS and even space domain awareness.

Although short of the seven-day flight hoped for, Skydweller says it demonstrated feasibility of staying airborne for months on solar power and batteries.

To achieve power-on, Lilium applied 900-volt external power to the aircraft, where it was converted to lower voltage to supply electrical and avionics systems.

Under a pilot partnership between Wing and Serve Robotics, packages will be picked up by a ground robot, then delivered by drone to customers up to 6 mi. away.

Pivotal has announced the completion of over 1,000 flights with its BlackFly single-seat eVTOL aircraft.

Solar sails could make new deep space missions possible. One potential application is a “space weather buoy” between the Earth and the Sun.

Arabian Travel Market (ATM) will underscore the pivotal role of connectivity when it returns to Dubai April 28-May 1, 2025.

Aurora’s Liberty Lifter; stratospheric HAPS; Radian’s subscale spaceplane; and GAC plans winged eVTOL air taxi.