Aerospace

The e-commerce giant has multiple advantages over competitors when it comes to building out a satellite internet network.

Replenishing key weapons and powering space launch demands drive extensive investments in Northrop’s propulsion production.

Epic will soon deliver its 100th E1000, having survived bankruptcy, customer salvation and a surprise acquisition.

X-Bow Systems will become a new, independent supplier of solid rocket motors and other services to Lockheed Martin.

A Slovakian-led research project to develop a hydrogen-powered vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft has been approved to receive almost €60 million ($69 million) in European Union funding.

China’s eVTOL startups continue to make rapid progress with new financing and pre-orders.

South African business aviation company CFS Aviation Group has announced a strategic evolution in its ownership and brand.

Thales says it is in advanced talks with RTX to buy the U.S. company’s stake in the Thales-Raytheon Systems joint venture.

Embraer CEO Francisco Gomes Neto warned that U.S. tariffs on Brazilian imports could have the same revenue impact on the manufacturer as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pratt & Whitney provides a rare glimpse of the XA103 adaptive engine and the digital design process underpinning its development.

JOBY AVIATION has expanded its site in Marina, CA to 435,500 sq ft, doubling aircraft production capacity to support scale-up of commercial operations to be able to produce up to 24 eVTOLs per year once fully operational.

TORAY ADVANCED COMPOSITES was selected by Airborne Aerospace to provide space-grade composite materials for constellation solar arrays.

Oscar Torres, formerly with Kellstrom Aerospace, was named an Operating Partner of AE Industrial Partners, FL.

HORIZON AIRCRAFT plans to evaluate ZeroAvia's ZA600 hydrogen-electric powertrain for its Cavorite X7 fan-in-wing eVTOL; partnership will accelerate research into necessary infrastructure and certification guidelines for zero-emissions.

Joby has announced a planned doubling of its production footprint at its low-rate facility in Marina, California.

More than five months into the second Trump administration, it is becoming increasingly clear who the winners and losers are in Western aerospace and defense.

Volant Aerotech remains on track for certification and engineering development, with crewed trials planned for late 2025.

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Chinese startup WeFly conducted the first flight of a full-scale uncrewed prototype of its W280 eVTOL air taxi.

ZeroAvia will explore the integration of its ZA600 hydrogen-electric powertrain into Horizon Aircraft’s planned Cavorite X7 hybrid eVTOL.

Safran has laid the first stone for a new turbine blade factory in Rennes, France, as the group creates the foundry for its civil Leap and military M88 engines.

Russian aircraft manufacturer Ural Works for Civil Aviation has conducted the first flight trials of its new VK-800 turboprop engine.

UK startup Sora Aviation has designed a large tiltrotor eVTOL able to carry up to 30 passengers at a time.

Australian startup Siltrax has achieved record power densities in independent third-party testing.

Joby Aviation appears to have conducted an almost-9-hr. flight of a previously unknown hydrogen-electric-powered uncrewed aircraft.