Iceye, a Finnish Earth observation services provider with a blossoming constellation of synthetic aperture radar satellites, has landed a Series D round of venture capital worth at least $136 million, the company said Feb. 3.
GE Aviation has teamed with Boeing and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to modify a Saab 340B into a flying hybrid electric testbed for the recently awarded NASA Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration project.
The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to bring charges against a key figure in the trade secrets lawsuit launched by Boeing-backed Wisk against rival electric air taxi developer Archer Aviation.
Istanbul’s Bogazici University has inaugurated what is claimed to be Turkey’s, and Europe’s, first carbon-negative biorefinery, designed to produce a range of algae-based biotech products including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
The International Space Station (ISS) partnership gave its formal blessing for the four-member Axiom-1 (Ax-1) crew to visit the orbital outpost, with launch aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule now slated for March 30, a day earlier than previously planned.
Bell Textron has successfully demonstrated operation of its Autonomous Pod Transport (APT) 70 unmanned cargo aircraft with a ground-based detect and avoid system as part of broader infrastructure development efforts for advanced air mobility.
Daher, a tier-one supplier of major composites and metallic subassemblies, has entered final negotiations with Triumph for the acquisition of a metal aerostructures factory in Stuart, Florida.
Bloomberg’s Hyperdrive newsletter outlines several actions taken in China relative to electric power and autonomy that could be harbingers of what’s up next around the world.
The first release of the AAM (Advanced Air Mobility) Reality Index for 2022 shows some changes in ranking driven by progress in air vehicle development. Joby remains at the top of the rankings, followed by Beta Technologies.
An ATR 72-600 prototype performed a series of ground and flight tests with one of its turboprop engines running on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Zayed R. Alzayani, chairman to the Board of Directors of Gulf Air, has praised the airline’s front line workers in their response to the Coronavirus COVID-19.
Jambojet last week welcomed the management team of aircraft chartering and sales company Zela Aviation to its offices in Nairobi, Kenya, following an agreement signed last September.
The National Reconnaissance Office and SpaceX on Feb. 2 plan to launch the first Falcon 9 carrying an NRO payload procured under the National Security Space Launch program, and the first time a booster will be reused for another NRO mission.
After waiting out poor weather and a wayward cruise ship in Florida, SpaceX on Jan. 31 launched the newest member of Italy’s synthetic aperture radar Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation network, completing the fourth of 52 missions SpaceX plans this year.
Following months of negotiations and several days of industrial action, Airbus and Germany’s industrial workers union IG Metall agreed on a new company set-up that will see the company's industrial structure in Germany divided into two main units.
The LMS-901 Baikal light turboprop is seen as a successor to Russia’s ageing fleet of Soviet mass-produced Antonov An-2 piston-engine utility aircraft.
