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By Chen Chuanren
Chinese lessor GDAT will look to place the Airbus H160s with customers in the energy sector.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Red Cat Holdings, an emerging supplier of small drones for the military, has invested in Firestorm, a U.S. startup developing a modular UAS.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The companies are to draw up the operating concept by referring to systems being developed outside Japan, including in the U.S.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
Each is to receive up to $600,000 over two years under 2023 Phase II NIAC grants.
Space

By Graham Warwick, Garrett Reim
Hydrogen-electric propulsion developer ZeroAvia has provided details of its launch platform and product road map for the first time.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
A new L3Harris cruise missile is coming to the Bell AH-1Z Viper.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
The Ranger is also designed to deploy Quantum Space’s Scout vehicles, satellites the company wants to distribute throughout cislunar space.
Commercial Space

By Ben Goldstein
The financing comes as SkyDrive works to certify its aircraft in time to launch commercial air taxi service for the 2025 World Expo being hosted in Osaka.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
NASA is funding further work on a near-silent propulsion system for urban drones—and potentially air taxis.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The awards are part of the FAA’s Aviation Sustainability Center.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Mark Carreau
Built by Ball Aerospace and integrated with Intelsat’s 40E communications satellite, TEMPO is to provide hourly monitoring of pollutants.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Connecticut lawmakers are frustrated that they still have not received a briefing from the Army that explains their reasoning for selecting Bell's FLRAA bid.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Space transport startup Dawn Aerospace plans to begin gradual envelope expansion flights of its suborbital Mk-2 Aurora spaceplane.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Xwing has started the FAA certification process for its Superpilot autonomous flight control technology.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
True Anomaly has raised a $17 million Series A round of capital for further testing of its Jackal spacecraft, an “autonomous orbital pursuit vehicle.”
Space

By Steve Trimble
The decision by the Government Accountability Office clears Bell to resume development of the V-280 Valor tiltrotor for the FLRAA program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Pyka has signed a letter of intent with Guatemalan fresh fruit producer Grupo Hame.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force wants to issue a contract in 2026 for a next-generation re-entry vehicle for its Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
Startup Loft Orbital has doubled its order from Airbus OneWeb Satellites to 30 spacecraft, the company said April 6.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is planning the largest transatlantic crossing of combat aircraft since the lead-up to the 1990-1991 Gulf War this summer.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Space Force will buy three additional Millennium Space Systems space vehicles for its Missile Track Custody program.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The relocation freed the Poisk module’s airlock for a series of upcoming spacewalks, while vacating the docking port for a Russian Progress resupply spacecraft.
Space

By Ben Goldstein
The FAA surprised the industry in May 2022 with a shift to certifying electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles from Part 23 to Part 21.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
SpaceWERX has awarded City Labs a $1.7 million contract to develop a nuclear battery.
Space

By Mark Carreau
TEMPO and the Intelsat 40E communications satellite are planned for launch from Cape Canaveral.
Space