Aerospace

BOEING established Confident Travel Initiative team to work with airlines, global regulators, industry stakeholders, flying passengers, infectious

Launch service companies could be given the discretion to decide the optimal launch plan to support the 30 satellites in Tranche 0 of the Space Development Agency’s future military surveillance and communications architecture in low Earth orbit, the agency said May 20.

Alessandro Profumo as Chief Executive Officer of Leonardo, Italy; Luciano Carta was appointed Chairman.

UNITED PERFORMANCE METALS installed new 8KW fiber laser at Cincinnati.

ASCENT AEROSPACE installed a large format additive manufacturing (LFAM) from Thermwood for printing/machining thermoplastic composite materials.

PANASONIC AVIONICS was selected by Virgin Orbit to provide inflight connectivity for its modified 747-400 airborne rocket launch platform.

RPI UK says production has returned to 90% since reopening after COVID-19 lockdown; it aims to be at 100% by end of June (order book full until

HÉROUX-DEVTEK had C$50.7m net loss aon C$613m sales for year ended March 31 vs C$26.2m net income on C$484m a year ago. It says gross profit as a

Commercial aviation groups and manufacturers planned to file seven petitions challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) recent decision to grant Ligado Networks access to radio frequency spectrum near bands used for critical aviation applications.

British satellite launcher firm Skyrora has undertaken a full static fire test of its Skylark-L rocket, the first test of this scale since the UK’s Black Arrow program 50 years ago.

“Ike” Eisenhower’s Connie is the only privately-owned former Air Force One saved from the scrap heap

Ask the Editors: Instead of the mature horizontal model of today’s engine market, electric propulsion has been vertically integrated.

Four launches will reduce risk for key technologies behind DARPA’s Blackjack autonomous LEO constellation demonstration.

The latest internet entrepreneurs to put money into UAM hope to set their company apart with a safe, quiet low-cost vehicle.

NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 20 for final preparations ahead of launch next week to test SpaceX’s Crew Dragon system.

A new study suggests that most operators disregarded the FAA’s system for authorizing drone flights in controlled airspace when flying near a large central Florida airport.

Boeing, which was shut out of nearly $1 billion of NASA funding to develop human-class lunar landers, said it does not plan to protest the awards, which went to teams led by Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX.

LOCKHEED MARTIN plans May 23 to begin alternate work schedule for F-35 production to meet a slower workflow from supplier delays due to COVID-19

ROLLS-ROYCE announced reorganization plan to save £1.3b per year, which includes reducing employment by >17% (9,000 of 52,000 total workers

The U.S. Commerce Department on May 19 released a long-awaited new rule for the export of remote sensing services.

Rolls-Royce announced this morning that it will lose up to 9,000 jobs as it addresses the change in demand following the collapse of the aviation industry due to Covid-19

Ask the Editors: Anything that lowers trip costs is a benefit to carriers right now, with a predicted shift to lower-capacity aircraft.

Among major trends COVID-19 is expected to spur in A&D manufacturing is the big will gobble up others or take back more work.

HENSOLDT has assembled world's first 10-year 3D printed circuit board using new dielectric polymer ink and conductive ink from NANO DIMENSION.

Two days before he was to chair the Flight Readiness Review for the SpaceX Demo-2 mission, marking the return of U.S. human orbital flight capability, NASA Associate Administrator Douglas Loverro is leaving the agency.