Aerospace

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

Moratorium on space passenger safety regulations is poised to end Oct. 1.

ALLFLIGHT, WA launched multimillion-dollar upgrade program to add a Positive Air Displacement Booth to enhance 737 transparencies rebuild program and 747, 757, 767, 777 cockpit windows and 787 pax windows repair & rebuild programs.

AVIATION WEEK NETWORK reports delivery in 1H23 of six ARJ21s (now 106) and six SSJs (now 208) vs 2/6 in 1H22.

LOAR GROUP renamed Desser's Proprietary Solutions businesses as DAC ENGINEERED PRODUCTS (SPNWS; July 7).

BOEING and INTEL teamed to work together to advance semiconductor technology for aerospace industry to create ultra-small microelectronic components that enable autonomy and more secure computing for future products.

Stephanie Kenyon to Interim Chief Executive Officer of Women in Aviation International.

VSMPO-AVISMA plans to build new RUB21b, 50,000 sq meter titanium production facility at the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Titanium Valley in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia for operation in 2027. It will mass produce small-diameter products.

CFM INTL launched the LEAP program 15 years ago this week; >35m flight hours have been logged on >2,700 aircraft.

TAMARACK AEROSPACE GROUP says it is in discussions with several airlines to supply its Eco-SMARTWING system for >50 Dash 8-400s.

MARUBENI has acquired 50% stake in Miami-based DASI (aircraft inventory solutions) from Fortress Investment Group.

The partnership will see EHang launch air taxi tourism and sightseeing services with the autonomous, two-passenger EH216-S multicopter.

HawkEye 360 has raised a $58 million round of capital that will be used to fund new radio frequency sensing satellites.

Lilium CEO Klaus Roewe spoke with the AAM Report on the sidelines of the 2023 Paris Airshow to talk about Lilium's recent string of positive developments.

This week’s #FlightFriday looks at how flight hours, by region, compare against the first half of 2019.

Ordinary matter accounts for just 5% of the universe. The Euclid mission will focus on everything else.

Link Plumeria is now formally attached to the F/A-XX development project at the heart of the Navy’s Next Generation Air Dominance program.

Tier 1 aerostructures supplier GKN Aerospace is leaning into the advanced air mobility industry.

Stratonautica has become the first Russian company to test a system for delivery of picosatellites, tiny spacecraft with a wet mass between 0.1-1 kg.

South Korean drone maker This Is Engineering (TIE) has unveiled its concept for an autonomous passenger electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.

Toyota has laid out a road map for electric vehicle development that could see solid-state lithium-ion batteries being commercialized by 2027-28.

Beleaguered rocket startup Astra Space will raise as much as $65 million gross through a new stock sale effort while also carrying out a stock consolidation effort.

Collins Aerospace says it is on track to open a $50 million aircraft electrification and electric propulsion laboratory dubbed "The Grid" in October.

Thales' acquisition of cockpit communication systems company Cobham Aerospace Communications could create flight deck system integration possibilities.

Aircraft radome manufacturers are certifying new materials to withstand damage and improve performance.