As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, air carriers are chasing a smaller pool of travelers, putting small-community air service at risk just as it was in the years following 9/11.
Startup Astroscale’s ELSA-d orbital debris removal demonstration has accomplished its first key goal, with the servicer satellite showing how it would capture a defunct spacecraft.
Alphabet drone delivery company Wing is close to passing the milestone of 100,000 commercial deliveries, more than half of them in the last eight months in Logan, a city of 300,000 people south of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia.
Startup Firefly Aerospace says plans remain on schedule to attempt the first launch of its two-stage Alpha rocket from Vandenburg SFB, California, on Sept. 2 following a successful static fire test in mid-August.
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and UPS have started delivering COVID-19 vaccine by drone at the health care system’s medical complex in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
A team of six Japanese companies including All Nippon Airways (ANA) plan to demonstrate the capture and recycle of carbon dioxide (CO2) into sustainable available fuel (SAF) using renewable energy.
With support from a NASA Tipping Point technology development award, Mojave, California-based Masten is developing a suborbital aerospace testbed with an option for point-to-point payload transportation.
EHang is accelerating its initiative to identify urban air mobility routes as the Chinese startup transitions to being an operator of its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing autonomous air taxis.
Honeywell is continuing its push into the advanced air mobility market with the selection of its small satellite communications system to provide beyond-visual-line-of-sight connectivity for Pipistrel’s Nuuva family of hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned cargo aircraft.
Among the technologies integral to managing high-density airspace, fully autonomous aircraft, and air taxis are detect-and-avoid systems that allow aircraft to maneuver around weather, turbulence, obstacles and other aircraft.
Oman Air and Oman’s Football Association have agreed to operate two special charter flights to fly Oman’s National Football Team to Japan for its upcoming World Cup 2022 Qualifying Match.
Organizers have postponed the Latin American Business & Aviation Conference and Exhibition 2021 planned for November, the second year the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a change of dates.