Aerospace

Dr. Yuta Yamanoi to Managing Director of Instrument Systems, Munich.

The MoU is intended to enable collaboration to identify research, development, demonstration, and deployment opportunities for sustainable aviation technologies

AST SpaceMobile’s first batch of direct-to-cellular satellites will not be launched in the second quarter of this year as planned,

The project involves Thales, TXT and the Universite Laval.

Russia has restored its capability for high-resolution Earth mapping with the recent launch of the new Resurs-P observation satellite.

Thales has completed the acquisition of Cobham Aerospace Communications, thus obtaining crucial technology in secure broadband data links.

Flight tests of the Rolls-Royce Pearl 10X engine for the ultra-long-range Dassault Falcon 10X business jet have begun following delivery of the company’s Boeing 747-200 flying testbed fitted with the test engine to its Tucson facility in Arizona.

Demonstrators built under Clean Sky 2, the project’s predecessor, were exhibited at the annual forum as a source of motivation.

Two inconvienent truths about the tumult at Boeing.

Continuing an annual tradition dating back to 1957, Aviation Week Network editors honored a wide variety of industry accomplishments.

THALES completed previously announced acquisition of COBHAM AEROSPACE COMMUNICATIONS, France (avionics).

C&L AEROSPACE signed agreement with AVIAN Inventory Management to assist in marketing and selling inventory of 85,000 individual part numbers and >18m total parts for ERJ 145, E170, E190, EMB 120, Legacy, Phenom, and Predator.

CPaT GLOBAL, TX was selected by Libya's Ghadames Air to provide distance learning systems for 737CL and 777 pilot/cabin crew training.

RESILIANT ENERGY, TX has acquired Reno, NV-based CHALLENGER AEROSPACE & DEFENSE (UAVs), expanding into $35b drone market.

James Palacios to Vice President of Sales and Business Development of PMW Aero, Liberty, SC.

GREENVERWAVE, France unveiled new SATCOM user terminal designed to maintain high-speed connectivity between LEO and GEO satellites.

GE AEROSPACE officially launched as an independent public company on April 2, following spin-off of GE Vernova.

Terran Orbital has been notified by the New York Stock Exchange that it is no longer at risk of being delisted.

The Pentagon on April 2 revealed its long-awaited strategy for integrating commercial space capabilities into national defense operations.

As of the end of 2023, 690 registered GA companies operated 2,900 aircraft and averaged 114,000 flight hours per month, China reported on March 29.

The rebirth of faster-than-sound civil transport remains a pipedream to many, but it is making material headway in Southern California.

Latecoere is in the middle of an all-out battle to improve the punctuality of its deliveries, badly affected by supply chain issues.

Lilium has received the first set of standby flight instruments from Garmin for integration into its Lilium Jet prototypes and flight simulator.

H55 is developing battery packs for Pratt & Whitney Canada’s hybrid-electric flight demonstrator.

Rolls-Royce has begun bench tests of its first 320-kW electric motor demonstrator for potential regional aircraft applications.