Startup Relativity Space successfully completed a full-duration, 20-sec. test run of its Terran 1 rocket with its nine first-stage Aeon liquid oxygen/liquid natural gas engines at Cape Canaveral on Aug. 22, clearing a major hurdle toward a planned debut launch attempt in the coming weeks or months.
You can imagine the frustration of Airbus’ engineers. Just hours before the company’s Zephyr high-altitude pseudo-satellite looked set to break a 60-year-old flight-duration record, the solar-powered uncrewed aircraft system was lost.
NASA is asking the aerospace industry to describe a commercial strategy for the planned deorbiting of the International Space Station, which is currently planned for the end of 2030.
Heads Up Technologies has bought fellow aircraft cabin lighting supplier STG Aerospace for its "concept-to-certification capability and extensive intellectual property."
The Airbus HAPs platform was lost hours before it would have broken the world record for the longest continuous flight, which stands at 64 days 22 hr. 19 min.
The primary story on funding in the advanced air mobility industry this month is on cash burn related to research and development, to include certification efforts.
Groupe ADP of France, Beta Technologies, UrbanV and Volatus Infrastructure join the AAM Infrastructure Index this month, bringing to nine the companies included in the index.
China’s EHang is banking on a post-pandemic recovery in tourism to fuel demand for its autonomous air vehicles and services and is talking to local governments about setting up operating centers in different regions once its EH216S electric air taxi has been certified.
Eve Holding climbed from No. 15 to No. 4 in the AAM Reality Index this month, improving its score on the 10-point scale from 7.0 in June to 7.7 in August.
