German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Germany’s H2Fly has completed the first flights of a hydrogen-electric aircraft using cryogenic liquid-hydrogen storage.

The 2.5-m-long Mira-Light demonstrator is intended to “fine-tune” the flight control systems for the follow-on, aerospike-powered Mira demonstrator.

The goal of the 40-month, $4.2 million project was to actively suppress flutter using onboard sensors, algorithms and control surfaces.

Enabling contrail avoidance; hybrid regional demonstrator; next-generation HAPS; and quantum computing for R&D.

German aerospace center DLR has flown a subscale demonstrator of the HyBird concept for a small hybrid-electric regional aircraft.

The fuselage shell was made by Premium Aerotech, Airbus, Aernnova and German aerospace center DLR under the EU's Multifunctional Fuselage Demonstrator project.

Backed by European and UK research programs, Rolls is evaluating “vast unknowns’’ posed by the future move to hydrogen-fueled propulsion.

Arianespace’s workhorse Ariane 5 rocket closed out 27 years of operations on July 5 with its 117th mission.

The mission, which is intended to deliver two European government communications satellites into orbit, had been targeted to launch on June 16.

Arianespace is delaying the launch of its final Ariane 5 rocket due to a possible technical issue with the booster.