Aerospace

Advancing hydrogen for aviation; Alliance for zero emissions; Stratospheric microballoons; Kaman backs autonomy; H55 electric propulsion.

Virgin Orbit looks set to be the pathfinder for the UK’s satellite launch ambitions when it lifts off from Cornwall this summer.

Industry is welcoming creation of a bipartisan Congressional Advanced Air Mobility Caucus. National Business Aviation Association President and CEO Ed

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Urban Sky has started selling imagery captured from cameras hoisted into the stratosphere by its “Microballoons.”

Engines and cabin interiors top the list of missing components, while airlines and airports struggle to keep up normal operations.

With private space stations on the horizon, NASA may soon have options for astronaut services.

A secret contract award to Israel Aerospace industries on June 13 starts a three-year program to field “Standoff In” capabilities.

The OEM produced the T-7A in only three years, but challenges remain before the process can green-light its next all-new airliner.

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

Redwire has sold what it says is the “first” space-manufactured optical crystal, to researchers at Ohio State University.

MTU Aero Engines says it has identified a Flying Fuel Cell (FFC) and Water Enhanced Turbofan (WET) as “favored” concepts for revolutionary reductions in emissions from aircraft propulsion systems.

Fahari Aviation, a Kenya Airways company, and EVE UAM, have signed a Letter of Intent for up to 40 electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOLs).

Operated by Turkey’s TAV Airports, Almaty, Batumi, Madinah, Tbilisi, and Zagreb airports were among the best in their regions in the World Airport Awards 2022, organised by Skytrax.

Qatar Airways Group chief executive, Akbar Al Baker, has received the ‘2022 Joseph Murphy Award’ by Air Transport World (ATW).

Kenya Airways has entered a partnership with the M Sport Ford World Rally Team as the official travel partner for the most demanding rally of the season, the Safari Rally.

LUFTHANSA SYSTEMS has Korean Air order to provide NetLine/Plan network planning and NetLine/Sched schedule management solutions.

Ian Malin to Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy and Commercial Officer of Unical Aviation, Los Angeles.

ROLLS-ROYCE is developing turbogenerator technology, including small engine for hybrid-electric applications, for AAM.

AIRBUS and LINDE signed MOU to work on the development of hydrogen infrastructure at airports; deal includes analysis of Power-to-Liquid fuels.

AIREON was selected by Boeing to deliver space-based ADS-B flight data.

Using virtual reality to fly a helicopter has money-saving potential.

The companies are working together to develop the Kaman K-Max Titan heavy-lift and Kargo medium-lift autonomous logistics aircraft.

Rolls-Royce has revealed it is developing an all-new turbogenerator for use in advanced-air-mobility applications including primary propulsion for electric short-takeoff-and landing aircraft and extending the range of electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles.

BURRANA has approval from Airbus for line-fitting of its RISE in-seat power solution on A320 Family aircraft from 2Q23.