SpaceX apparently has acquired Silicon Valley small-satellite maker Swarm Technologies, according to a U.S. Federal Communications Commission filing in which SpaceX seeks to obtain the startup’s mobile satellite-service licenses.
Over the course of the last five years, the world of advanced air mobility has marched from seeming fiction into reality, with at least one of the original pioneers shifting off center stage into the wings to focus on core competencies.
As the Pentagon develops a plan to formalize the investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), a group of scientists and researchers are advocating for greater civilian involvement.
A NASA-backed Moon mission targeted to launch from Wallops Island, Virginia, will instead fly from Rocket Lab’s New Zealand spaceport due to ongoing efforts by NASA to certify the Electron booster’s automated flight termination system for use at Wallops.
Building on their cooperation to install a first-of-kind space surveillance radar, LeoLabs and the New Zealand Space Agency have announced a multiyear agreement to develop a space regulatory and sustainability platform.
The Singapore government is currently reviewing a feasibility study developed alongside industry players on mixing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) with conventional jet fuel in a bid to increase the uptake of SAF in the island state.
Boeing says it will continue to be a “long-term strategic” investor in AEI HorizonX and remain the anchor investor for the current fund and AEI HorizonX’s first standalone fund planned for 2022.
With analysts projecting that express logistics will be an early and potential large market for electric aircraft, U.S. autonomous cargo aircraft developer Elroy Air has completed a $40 million Series A funding round.
The Japanese startup that won the Pratt & Whitney Disruptor Award at the 2020 GoFly Prize event has unveiled its first product, a single-seat electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle it plans to offer as a kit-built experimental aircraft beginning in 2022.
