Aerospace

The California hypersonic missile startup is increasing its overall capital war chest to $464.5 million since emerging from stealth mode nearly two years ago.

Bye Aerospace has partnered with experienced carbon fiber prototyping and manufacturing company Composite Approach.

Workers at Seville-based supplier Sofitec Aero had alerted Airbus about manufacturing problems on fuselage panels, labor union UGT FICA said.

Watch as editors break down why Airbus will again miss its delivery target due to supplier quality problems and discuss Boeing’s turnaround which appears to have taken another step forward.

Airbus will again miss its delivery target due to supplier quality problems as Boeing’s turnaround takes another step forward. Listen in as our editors break it all down.

Reaching its 2025 delivery goal was always going to be challenging for Airbus. Now it turns out it is unachievable.

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

The author of the 1997 U.S. defense acquisition reform plan critiques Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new strategy.

Peraton has been chosen as the sole integrator in the ambitious U.S. DOT plan to upgrade the country’s air traffic control infrastructure by 2029.

Beta Technologies used its first earnings call to send a clear message that it is shifting from R&D and prototyping to manufacturing conforming test articles.

Antares has raised a $96 million Series B funding round to develop, build and test microreactors, including for use on U.S. Army and NASA lunar bases.

EHang delivered 41 EH216-S autonomous eVTOL multicopters in the third quarter, down from 68 aircraft in Q2 of last year.

China’s TCab Technology has joined the select group of startups that have transitioned between thrustborne vertical and wingborne horizontal flight.

A job advert posted by Anduril indicates that work is underway on a vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) UAS in the Group 5 size category.

Prague-based hybrid-VTOL startup Zuri is planning a major shift from years of subscale demonstrators to a full-envelope tiltrotor prototype flight campaign in 2026.

The key role business aviation could play in the rollout of advanced air mobility is clear in Archer Aviation’s unveiling of its planned air taxi network in South Florida.

The agency’s Lift Challenge aims for at least a fourfold increase in drone payload-to-weight capability.

The Middle East, as the crucible for challenging durability and performance conditions, is the focus for ongoing dust ingestion engine tests.

Advanced air mobility startups are looking to defense for early revenues, so Electra.aero is forming a dedicated defense unit to pursue potential military uses.

Fokker Next Gen has closed its legal entity in Latvia to focus its main activities in the Netherlands, according to LIAA.

Hopscotch Air is using a "mini-IPO" to raise funds to expand its fleet of Cirrus aircraft, and to develop partnerships for developing electric regional aircraft.

Shield AI announced tests of its Hivemind autonomy software for use on spacecraft, calling autonomy in space a natural extension of the air domain.

GoAero Prize announced eight teams that will move on to the 2027 fly0off for it's $2 million competition to create VTOL emergency response aircraft.

Egypt has moved closer to establishing its first commercial-scale SAF plant after Shell signed a long-term agreement to purchase SAF from Green Sky Capital.

British aerospace supplier Senior has been awarded a new contract from Airbus for fluid conveyance components that will be installed on multiple airliners.