Potential military missions for the aircraft include “island hopping and distributed cargo logistics in the Indo-Pacific theater or operations in areas with limited infrastructure like Africa,” an Electra executive says.
The investment fully funds E-Space’s Beta 1 launch of its first test satellites in March, as well as its Beta 2 launch “later” this year, the company says.
Chinese-owned Dornier Seawings has acquired the rights to a light amphibious aircraft that it plans to produce alongside the 12-passenger Seastar CD2 flying boat.
The U.S. Army is expected to bear the brunt of budget cutbacks when the Pentagon’s spending plan is finally rolled out, and that could require some bold moves including ending what the service had said is its top aviation procurement priority.
South Korea’s ambition to launch urban air mobility services in 2025 has been boosted by the signing of a strategic collaboration agreement between air taxi developer Joby Aviation and Korean telecommunications giant SK Telecom.
A new 70-page report on the oft-ignored topic of hypersonic defense opens with a first line that neither sugarcoats the scale of the challenge nor wishes it away.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s upgraded Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T—the third in the GOES-R series of weather observation and environmental monitoring spacecraft—is undergoing preparations for a March 1 launch.
The Swiss government claims that its future fleet of Lockheed Martin F-35s will have similar noise levels on an annual basis than its current fleet of fighters, despite the aircraft being measured as 3 dB louder during takeoff than the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet.
After Denmark’s Prime Minister in January set the goal of all domestic aviation being fossil-free by 2030, a massive Danish project to produce sustainable fuels from renewable energy is investigating whether it can begin jet fuel production in 2025, two years earlier than planned.
U.S. regional airline Mesa Air Group has invested in startup Regent and signed a letter of intent to purchase 200 of its sea-skimming electric seagliders for overwater routes between coastal cities.
The UK is moving to bolster its burgeoning sustainable space sector with government funding for projects to advance capabilities ranging from situational awareness to debris removal.
A team including former NASA Acting Administrator Steve Jurczyk has unveiled a new business venture to develop and operate a reconfigurable robotic outpost and space tug in cislunar space, with an eye on providing payload hosting, communications, in-space transportation, remote sensing and other services to commercial and government customers, including the Defense Department.
Move faster and don’t be afraid to fail. That was the message from top Pentagon leaders to a group of more than a dozen company leaders on Feb. 3 during a virtual meeting urging faster adoption of hypersonic weapons in the face of Chinese advancement.
The U.S. ambassador to Greece has said the country is likely to be approved by the U.S. government to purchase the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, but it will be a minimum of five years before Athens will receive aircraft.
The first Boeing P-8A Poseidon destined for the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) has emerged from the paint shop, sporting the emblem of the 61 Patrol Air Group.
Boeing says successful tests of an all-composite cryogenic fuel tank at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center clear the way for large-scale application of the lightweight technology in future spacecraft and aircraft.
A day after delivering a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite into orbit from California, SpaceX returned its attention to building its Starlink broadband communications network with a midafternoon Feb. 3 launch of another Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center.
Jordan has been cleared to buy up to 16 Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters in a deal worth up to $4.21 billion, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said on Feb. 3. The proposed deal, if signed by Jordan, would make the Arab kingdom the sixth customer for the latest version of the F-16.
Engineers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore have begun a three-month process to align the 18 segments of the James Webb Space Telescope primary mirror, fine-turning its shape so that it operates as a unified, 21-ft.-dia. mirror, NASA said on Feb. 3.
An entrepreneur with a background in space companies and an aerospace-focused investment group are partnering to launch a new company, O-G, that aims to provide microgravity and low Earth orbit (LEO) insertion services.
The U.S. Navy is open to forming a joint program with the U.S. Air Force for the Tactical Surrogate Aircraft, and basing the platform on a common derivative of a future training jet to replace the Boeing/BAE Systems T-45 Goshawk.
