Aerospace

A Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital booster failed during an uncrewed Sept. 12 launch due to structural fatigue on the engine nozzle.

Russia plans to launch its first civil radar observation satellite–Kondor-FKA–on May 27.

Dawn Aerospace’s Mk-II Aurora spaceplane has received an aircraft certification from the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand.

Hydrogen propulsion in aviation faces significant technical and market challenges.

AGS is a regional airport located 6 mi. southeast of Augusta, Georgia, a midsize city located along the state’s eastern border with South Carolina.

Developed by China's AECC, the CJ-1000A has been developed as an alternate powerplant for the Comac C919 narrowbody airliner.

A loose fuel filter doomed the company’s last launch. Then came a bigger problem.

Sierra Space is moving on to tests of its inflatable habitat technology with hard structures inside the pressure shell.

Zipline has unveiled its second autonomous logistics system, this one designed for home delivery.

Jekta received its first potential order in the form of a letter of intent from Gayo Aviation for 10 of its PHA-ZE 100 electric amphibious seaplanes.

EASA is trying a new way to ensure the certification process is compatible with a sensible time-to-market for future aircraft using breakthrough technologies.

LYTE AVIATION, UK unveiled 40-seat SkyBus hybrid eVTOL (and SkyTruck cargo variant) with two separate propulsion systems (electric and turbine).

SHELL AVIATION signed collaboration agreement with Alaska Airlines to advance development of SAF market and long-term jet fuel supply in the Pacific Northwest.

HEART AEROSPACE signed collaboration agreement with Government of Åland to explore use of its ES-30 electric regional aircraft.

Åland is a cluster of islands located in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden.

While the EC has initially referred to a 5% SAF incorporation target for 2030, the industry has been lobbying for a greater proportion.

The two-stage, 110-ft.-tall rocket was produced using primarily 3D-printing.

The complex path to hydrogen propulsion, and why air travel will get more expensive.

The energy density achieved is up to twice that provided by commercially available graphite-anode lithium-ion batteries.

The point-to-point flight is estimated to take about 10 min. in Archer’s Midnight electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle.

In the past 18 months, three of the NH90’s 14 national customers have concluded that the efforts to keep it operational are not worth pursuing.

Beta plans to certify a CTOL version of its electric aircraft ahead of the VTOL variant.

Although the rollout event was canceled, Turkish Aerospace Industries released images of the TF-X on March 18.

UK startup Vertical Aerospace plans to seek additional investment this year to continue development of its VX4 eVTOL air taxi.

The newly appointed CEO of Jetson predicts that some of the earliest adopters of electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles will be private owners.