Aerospace

A Rocket Lab Electron booster has lifted off from New Zealand, sending 30 small satellites on their way to orbit. It then turned around and parachuted into the Pacific Ocean for the first time.

New-space investment group Voyager Space Holdings is buying the Launch Co., a launch support startup based near Anchorage, Alaska, that has been partnering with other marquee space startups and increasingly the U.S. military.

U.S. start-ups VerdeGo Aero and XTI Aircraft have partnered to develop a hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned aircraft.

Other regulators are expected to follow the FAA’s lead but will mandate additional steps.

From nuclear security to acquisition policy and global alliances, these are the issues President-elect Joe Biden will face.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Ground-based flight operations rely on a series of tightly managed processes that depend on the efficiency of one another, and any deviation in these

The World Travel Market (WTM) Africa has received the approval to go ahead in April 2021 as a live hybrid event.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is to use artificial intelligence in the design of an air taxi under a four-year, $7.2 million DARPA contract.

“These are very long-running issues; the Boeing-Airbus one has been running literally decades,” says one consultant.

SpaceX becomes first company to win U.S. government certification of human spaceflight system.

The FAA next year will begin using live telemetry data from commercial space vehicles to determine the extent of airspace it needs to protect during launch and re-entry operations.

New Zealand start-up Kea Aerospace has unveiled plans to develop a stratospheric unmanned aircraft, aiming initially at the aerial imagery market.

Transformation of heritage aerospace contractor shows old dogs can learn new tricks.