Aerospace

L3HARRIS received FAA TSO for new SRVIVR25 CVDR with 25-hour capacity.

CHAMP CARGOSYSTEMS, Luxembourg was selected by Vallair to develop cargo management system for its prototype A321 freighter conversion; package will

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has completed the first flight of a Heron TP medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air system to be operated by Germany.

The FCC has endangered a national treasure by allowing high-power terrestrial transmitters in the band of frequencies that includes GPS.

UK’s Jet Zero Council, FlyZero study and hybrid-electric regional; Swift flies HALE UAV; Advanced electric trainer; Soft solid batteries.

Spaceflight’s new Sherpa-FX orbit transfer vehicle is to be deorbited after its first mission in low Earth orbit by deploying Tethers Unlimited’s drag-increasing Terminator Tape.

EmbraerX has begun “flights” of an engineering simulator for its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.

GE AVIATION reports the GE90 has surpassed 100m flight hours; it entered service in November 1995 and GE has delivered >2,800 GE90-94B-115Bs.

THALES AEROSPACE lost €109m in 1H20 (vs €270m profit in 1H19) on 25.4% lower sales.

HONEYWELL AEROSPACE earned $528m in 2Q20 (vs $907m in 1Q19) on 28% lower sales.

ELEMENT MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY and GE AVIATION teamed to provide Element customers with access to GE’s product qualification testing (PQT) capabilities.

AIRBUS has agreed with France and Spain to make amendments to A350 Repayable Launch Investment (RLI) contracts to end long-standing dispute with WTO.

Swift Engineering has flown the first in a planned family of commercial persistent stratospheric unmanned aircraft.

Rolls-Royce is planning to make the first flight of its ACCEL high-speed electric-powered aircraft later this year.

Bloomburg has reported that creditors of South African Airways have given the government more time to find the money to fund a rescue of the bankrupt state-owned airline.

"Our strategy remains unchanged" - despite the effects of the crisis - "which are likely to be long-lasting as numerous economic sectors are impacted", announced Dassault Aviation CEO, Eric Trappier while presenting the 2020 half year financial report of the Group.

Qatar Airways Group has launched four international investment arbitrations against which includes Egypt.

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

Aviation Week editors provide their behind-the-scenes impressions from interviews with the CEOs of Airbus, Boeing, Lufthansa Technik and Raytheon Technologies.

The Trump administration’s National Space Council on July 23 released a 17-page report outlining its approach to deep-space exploration and development.

STEVENS AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE SYSTEMS completed AS9110 and ISO9001 audits for its quality management system at Greenville, SC.

GKN AEROSPACE took ownership of 110,000 sq ft Global Technology Centre in Bristol, UK to open in 2H21 to focus on additive manufacturing, advanced

US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY proposed emissions standards for commercial aircraft and large business jets that it says are in line with ICAO's

EMBRAER concluded financing contracts totaling US$300m from five public/private banks to reinforce its cash position.

British lawmakers have expressed concern that the government’s decision to invest in the failed OneWeb satellite constellation ignored input from advisers.