As it prepares to launch its third and final phase, the UK’s Future Flight Challenge has unveiled its vision for air travel in 2030 and ambitious targets for real-world demonstrations to be completed in 2024.
A Japanese KC-46A has completed an inflight refueling test, paving the way for Boeing to deliver the first tanker later this year, the company said on Aug. 16.
A key test for the U.S. Army’s Long Range Hypersonic Weapon has been postponed for several months, adding a new wrinkle to the tightly choreographed plan to introduce the land-based missile in fiscal 2023, program officials say.
Honeywell said its Aspire 150 and 350 satellite communications systems designed to use Iridium’s new Certus high-speed L-band service should be certified this year.
Privately held British defense company Cobham and UK defense electronics specialist Ultra Electronics said Aug. 16 that they had reached an agreement for Cobham to buy Ultra for almost £2.6 billion ($3.6 billion).
The contract could pave the way for follow-on integration of the system into more advanced combat and aggressor training aircraft such as the Lockheed Martin F-16.
While urban air mobility SPACs have generated many headlines in recent months, due in part to their eye-watering sums, the SPAC phenomenon has featured more new new-space public candidates by end-market.
Boeing and NASA’s Commercial Crew Program believe the launch of the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) to the International Space Station could be delayed until late this year and possibly into 2022.
Space Systems Command, which was formally activated during an outdoor ceremony on Aug. 13, received an urgent call by its new commander to expect more change as the U.S. military adjusts to a warfighting posture in the space domain.
Russia’s Roscosmos and Tunisian telecommunication company Telnet Holding signed a memorandum of understanding on Aug. 13 in Moscow calling for the preparation of Tunisia’s first person to travel into space, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said.
Contractors vying to develop the future system that would defend the U.S. against intercontinental ballistic missiles say they can meet the aggressive schedule being pushed by military leaders.
Slingshot Aerospace, an Austin, Texas, startup focusing on space traffic-control products and services, has acquired another startup, Stellatus Solutions, which was building a platform for competing satellite operators to communicate among themselves.
It was a week of ups and downs for the urban air mobility (UAM) industry, illustrating the turbulence roiling the nascent market as companies jockey for leading positions.
UK startup Electric Aircraft Group (EAG) has secured an investment from Irish regional airline CityJet to advance its plans to develop a hydrogen-electric 90-seat regional aircraft for entry into service in 2030.
Opener’s BlackFly might start its life as a toy for the affluent early adopter, as did the Ski-Doo and the Sea-Doo, but its designer believes the single-seat electric vertical-takeoff vehicle will ultimately find multiple practical uses.
Satellite communications provider Inmarsat announced a major upgrade to its L-band network on Aug. 12 that promises higher data speeds and smaller, lower-cost terminals for aviation users.
Overair is emphasizing low noise and robust performance margins as it unveils the production configuration for its Butterfly quad-tiltrotor electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.
As NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return mission speeds back to Earth to drop off materials gathered from the surface of Bennu, scientists have used data gathered during 30 months of close-up reconnaissance to determine the 500-meter-wide (1,640-ft.) object poses an extremely small impact threat to Earth.
