Electric Power Systems has confirmed that its battery system will power Archer’s Maker electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing demonstrator when it flies this year.
Hydrogen-electric propulsion developer ZeroAvia has struck a deal with the UK’s Octopus Hydrogen to supply green hydrogen to support flight testing of its fuel-cell power train in a 19-passenger aircraft.
Kenya Airways has released its financial results for the six-month period ending June 2021, showingthe first half of 2021, operations continued to be severely impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, resulting in depressed half-year results.
NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion are big-government programs trying to keep pace in a marketplace increasingly dominated by commercial industry, meanwhile, the U.S. military is looking to build bridges to international partners, that same commercial industry and to the intelligence community.
Call them letters of interest, pre-orders or some other term, electric aircraft startups are persuading potential customers to make early commitments of different forms to their products. In return, customers are gaining an ability to influence the design and investors are receiving votes of confidence in the aircraft.
Sierra Space is in discussions with the European Space Agency and German aerospace center DLR to extend existing partnerships covering crew access to the International Space Station to include new commercial vehicles.
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.
