UK electric propulsion startup Evolito has acquired battery developer Electroflight, expanding its business to encompass motors, controllers and energy storage systems.
Airbus is seeing early signs in the recovery of demand for long-haul aircraft and “may start the widebody [production] ramp-up earlier than we thought,” CEO Guillaume Faury tells Aviation Week.
NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (Capstone) small satellite successfully separated from its orbital Photon propulsion stage early July 4, beginning a pioneering journey to near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the Moon.
Researchers at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University have received a $371,000 grant from the FAA for a study to inform the development of standards and requirements for the accuracy of detect-and-avoid systems for uncrewed aircraft systems.
Electric short takeoff and landing aircraft developer Electra believes a 500-600 kW turbogenerator will allow its in-development nine-passenger aircraft to fly 30% more fuel efficiently that a similar-sized aircraft.
More details of the architecture of the Lilium Jet electric regional air taxi have emerged as the German startup has named Astronics to develop the power distribution system.
Europe’s Sesar 3 Joint Undertaking public-private partnership for air traffic management research has awarded grants for two projects for operational demonstrations that support the Digital European Sky vision to modernize the region’s aviation infrastructure.