Aerospace

The Golden Dome program to build an expansive missile and air defense shield for the U.S. has become one of the top priorities for the Pentagon.

A house aviation subcommittee meeting turned unexpectedly combative as Beta Technologies CEO Kyle Clark clashed with lawmakers over electric aircraft.

GoAero eVTOL prize progress; wind farm radar clutter; Archer licenses tiltrotor tech; and JAL expands atmospheric sampling.

Confident about overcoming design challenges, Aura Aero presses on with hybrid-electric ERA development.

Gen. Michael Guetlein, Golden Dome program director, said the first batch of contracts for space-based interceptor technology were awarded in November.

The Pentagon says there is a commitment to deliver a new U.S. Navy fighter even as the F/A-XX source selection process remains stalled and industrial base capacity is uncertain.

STARLINK was selected by Korean Air and all Hanjin Group airlines (Asiana Airlines, Jin Air, Air Busan and Air Seoul) to provide inflight Wi-Fi for entire fleet for installations (initially KAL and Asiana 777s and A350s) starting in 2026.

Sarah Flanagan to Interim Chief Financial Officer of AAR.

AIRBUS delivered 72 aircraft (10 A220s; 54 A320neo Family; four A330s; four A350s) in November vs 84 (12 A220s; 66 A320s; A330; five A350s) in Nov 2024; it has now delivered 657 of planned 790 aircraft in 2025 (SPNWS; Dec 5). It also booked undisclosed orders for 23 A320neo Family and eight A350-1000s and now has 797 (700 net) orders in 2025.

The uncrewed air vehicle (UAV) is designed to operate in challenging environments, such as flying over mountains, rivers, lakes, and bays.

The companies will integrate Spacesail's low-Earth orbit (LEO) connectivity into Airbus' High Bandwidth Connectivity (HBC)-plus.

The California hypersonic missile startup is increasing its overall capital war chest to $464.5 million since emerging from stealth mode nearly two years ago.

Bye Aerospace has partnered with experienced carbon fiber prototyping and manufacturing company Composite Approach.

Workers at Seville-based supplier Sofitec Aero had alerted Airbus about manufacturing problems on fuselage panels, labor union UGT FICA said.

Watch as editors break down why Airbus will again miss its delivery target due to supplier quality problems and discuss Boeing’s turnaround which appears to have taken another step forward.

Airbus will again miss its delivery target due to supplier quality problems as Boeing’s turnaround takes another step forward. Listen in as our editors break it all down.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

The author of the 1997 U.S. defense acquisition reform plan critiques Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new strategy.

Reaching its 2025 delivery goal was always going to be challenging for Airbus. Now it turns out it is unachievable.

Peraton has been chosen as the sole integrator in the ambitious U.S. DOT plan to upgrade the country’s air traffic control infrastructure by 2029.

Beta Technologies used its first earnings call to send a clear message that it is shifting from R&D and prototyping to manufacturing conforming test articles.

Antares has raised a $96 million Series B funding round to develop, build and test microreactors, including for use on U.S. Army and NASA lunar bases.

EHang delivered 41 EH216-S autonomous eVTOL multicopters in the third quarter, down from 68 aircraft in Q2 of last year.

China’s TCab Technology has joined the select group of startups that have transitioned between thrustborne vertical and wingborne horizontal flight.

A job advert posted by Anduril indicates that work is underway on a vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) UAS in the Group 5 size category.