United Airlines and its regional affiliate Mesa Airlines have conditionally agreed to order 200 19-passenger electric airliners from Heart Aerospace as they participated in the Swedish startup's $35 million Series A funding round.
Hard on the heels of being appointed chief executive of delivery-drone developer Volansi, former assistant U.S. Air Force Secretary Will Roper has been named to the board of electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft developer Beta Technologies.
NASA has added aircraft autonomy developer Reliable Robotics and 13 other entities to the list of partners that will participate in the agency’s first Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign in 2022.
U.S. lawmakers plan to consider whether to block funding for development of a missile defense system for Guam, they say in a report on a fiscal 2022 defense spending bill.
French hybrid-electric aircraft startup VoltAero has selected Rochefort Charente-Maritime Airport in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwest France for its final-assembly plant.
U.S. and Russian diplomats have pledged to open discussions to create “a mechanism that can lead to control of new and dangerous and sophisticated weapons that are coming on the scene now that reduce the times of response, that raise the prospects of accidental war."
SpaceShipTwo Unity glided to a landing at 9:32 am on July 11 after successfully providing a six-member crew, including Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson, a few minutes of weightlessness in space.
NASA and Northrop Grumman have finalized a $935 million contract for development of the lunar Habitation and Logistics Outpost module, which along with the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) will comprise the initial components of the agency’s human-tended, lunar-orbiting Gateway.
The FAA issued a second emergency airworthiness directive this week that requires operators of additional models of Bell helicopters to inspect their main-rotor hubs for potentially faulty hub strap pins.
In 2018, Astro Aerospace became one of the first companies to fly a full-scale electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicle. That same year, Astro became the first startup targeting the urban-air-mobility market to go public. But then the company went quiet.
Germany plans to arm its warships with the Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile (NSM) as part of a joint cooperation agreement with Norway that includes submarines and associated mission systems.
Heaviside becomes the fourth electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (evTOL) aircraft to receive military flight release from the U.S. Air Force under its Agility Prime program.
The FAA on July 8 formally announced the entry into service of its Space Data Integrator, a system that enables the agency to track rockets and reentry vehicles in near real-time as they transition through the airspace.
U.S. startup Flying Ship Technologies has signed a purchase agreement with an unidentified European customer for its wing-in-ground-effect maritime cargo vessels. Valued at $100 million, the agreement is secured by a deposit that is cancellable and refundable up to 90 days before delivery of the first of the ekranoplan-style vehicles.
Following modifications to overcome issues uncovered during taxi tests, a Russian flying testbed is being prepared for the first-ever flight to use a superconducting electric motor for propulsion.
Using its experience in providing on-demand helicopter service in New York and other cities, Blade Urban Air Mobility is working with electric air-taxi developers to tailor their aircraft to its operations.
The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps are lacking the necessary training capacity for a war with China or Russia and plan to issue an in-depth analysis in December that could reveal what will be required.
