Aerospace

The news comes as the company works to pay down debt associated with its acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne.

Receiving the design organization approval means that Lilium is now entitled by EASA to design, develop and hold a type certificate for its Lilium Jet.

Airbus Helicopters' Vertex project has demonstrated fully autonomous flight, including takeoff, cruise, approach and landing.

Vaeridion has signed a Pre-Application Contract (PAC) with EASA.

The bank joins Airbus, Barclays Sustainable Impact Capital and Saudi Arabia’s Neom Investment Bank as co-leads in the funding round.

NZAero has completed development and certification work on its SuperPac 750XL-II utility turboprop, a re-engined and upgraded version of the company’s 750XL.

India's airlines have ordered thousands of aircraft this year, but economic realities will keep it from replicating Beijing's growth miracle anytime soon.

Resilient PNT will require multiple alternatives to the singular GPS.

Major technical risks were retired by the performance of SpaceX’s Super Heavy rocket.

Several airlines detailed fleet expansion plans as they announced orders and commitments at this year’s Dubai Airshow—transactions that largely favored Boeing.

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

The International Space Station was born on December 6, 1998, when the U.S. Unity module was deployed from space shuttle Endeavour and mated with Russia’s Zarya module.

With the largest scheduled helicopter operation in North America, Vancouver-based Helijet is planning a leap into the advanced air mobility sector.

ICAO and AIRBUS signed Declaration of Intent to explore feasibility of SAF development/deployment in South America.

INTELSAT was selected by Aerolineas Argentinas to provide multi-orbit inflight connectivity services for 18 A330s/737 MAXs; airline will be first in Latin America to offer service using Intelsat’s new electronically steered array (ESA) antenna.

EMIRATES completed A380 demonstration flight powered (in one of its four GP7200 engines) by 100% SAF in partnership with Airbus, Engine Alliance, Pratt & Whitney, ENOC, Neste and Virent; the PW980 APU also ran on 100% SAF.

BOEING received Type Inspection Authorization (TIA) for 737-10 from FAA and can now begin certification flight testing.

Volocopter will be re-evaluating its plans to introduce advanced air mobility (AAM) services here after it failed to secure local “cost-sharing partners.”

With lower-than-expected time on wing at other airlines, Emirates decides against large order for the A350-1000 for now.

Weak, angled signals from global navigation satellite system satellites are spawning new applications.

Anastasiya Pasterick to Chief Financial Officer of Universal Hydrogen, Los Angeles.

Michael Canario to Chief Executive Officer of Qarbon Aerospace, Red Oak, TX.

AEROCONNECTIONS, Sharjah was selected by FACTEM, France as a distributor in the Middle East of its FL20 pilot headsets.

The AAM Stock Composite roared back to life during the week ended Nov. 21, driven by big gains in air-taxi makers Archer, Joby and EHang.

In the U.S., Archer and Joby Aviation are looking to certify their eVTOL vehicles and launch commercial passenger services by 2025.