Aerospace

Spacehab’s innovation and perseverance helped the company succeed against all odds and serve as a pathfinder for commercial space companies that have followed.

With a famous name in aviation and following industry giants, Benoit de Saint-Exupery must sell more aircraft as production slots grow scarce.

The newcomer joins incumbents ULA and SpaceX on the Space Force’s launch vendor list.

The airframer hopes the narrowbody A321XLR will make new long-haul routes economically viable.

A handful of leaders stands out for their adept use of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and spinoffs in shaping the industry.

Aviation Week editors go back through the archives to the origins of supersonic flight, revisiting key programs and exploring the issues that are still challenging high-speed aircraft designers today.

Archer Aviation plans to launch an air taxi network across five locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

With ambitions to operate air taxi service on demand—and at a frequency far greater than airliners fly currently—Joby Aviation has unveiled ElevateOS software.

Chris Celtruda to President and Chief Executive Officer of Chromalloy, Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Brian Costa is retiring.

GE AEROSPACE is modifying a Passport engine with hybrid electric components for testing through NASA's Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core (HyTEC) project. It is also maturing an integrated, megawatt (MW)-class hybrid electric propulsion system under EPFD program that calls testing modified Saab 340B with CT7s in collaboration with Boeing.

EMBRAER confirmed it currently has no plans to develop a larger commercial aircraft to compete with Airbus and Boeing.

GE AEROSPACE plans in September to open new Services Technology Acceleration Center (STAC) to accelerate the deployment of new inspection and repair processes to its MRO shops globally to improve the inspection of metal parts.

KOREAN AIR has 4-year Boeing contract to supply additional 737/767/777/787 fuselage and wing structures starting in 2025; delivery quantities are TBD, but contract is estimated to be worth US$650m based on sales/market projections.

KT MacIntosh to Chief Transformation Officer of Precision Aviation Group (PAG), Atlanta.

Scott Page to Chief Financial Officer of Precision Aviation Group (PAG), Atlanta.

WORLDWIDE FLIGHT SERVICES (WFS) was selected by American Airlines to provide cargo handling at Copenhagen for 787s coming from Philadelphia.

JOBY AVIATION has FAA approval for ElevateOS software suite, developed in-house, to enable high-tempo, on-demand air taxi operations.

A U.S. startup plans to have on-demand production of hydrogen from methanol on-site at airports in 2025, initially to fuel zero-emission ground vehicles.

Synspective, a Tokyo-based SAR satellite data and analytics solutions provider, announced June 20 it has raised 7 billion yen ($44 million).

Airbus says it is targeting ambulance and medical services as an early market for its eVTOL system, follow the unveiling of its four-person CityAirbus NextGen.

GE Aerospace is to test new hybrid-electric core tech in a Passport 20 as part of development efforts toward an open-fan, future single-aisle propulsion system.

An inspection system used to detect art forgeries is set for deployment to MRO shops via GE Aerospace’s soon-to-open Services Technology Acceleration Center.

GE Aerospace expects to ship the first production standard GE9X to Boeing for installation on a customer-bound Boeing 777-9 later this month.

Skepticism is growing about the near-term commercial prospects of eVTOLs.

Geespace, the satellite technology arm of China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, says it has deployed its Future Mobility Constellation in the Middle East.