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By Graham Warwick
A service that allows lessors, banks and other aircraft owners to track and report the emissions from their portfolios has been launched by Irish financial services company Fexco and U.S. aviation risk management consultancy Avocet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Israeli companies are rolling out a 600-gal. external fuel tank and a fifth-to-fourth-generation communication system as export options for the Lockheed Martin F-35.
AUSA

By Chen Chuanren
Reliability of the 18 Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning IIs embarked on the Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth operating in the Asia-Pacific region have met and sometimes exceed expectations, officials say.
AUSA

By Steve Trimble
Textron Systems has unveiled a new version of the Aerosonde unmanned aircraft system (UAS) with a 25-lb. payload capacity to compete for a U.S. Army
AUSA

By Chen Chuanren
Australia has requested 12 more Sikorsky MH-60R naval helicopters to supplement its existing fleet.
AUSA

By Mark Carreau
Two of the four crewmembers assigned to the upcoming SpaceX Crew-3 Dragon launch to the International Space Station are part of NASA’s “Artemis Team” of 18 freshmen and veteran fliers chosen for the agency’s human lunar return.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Germany aerospace center DLR has broken ground on a test site for hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion systems.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
As Rolls-Royce continues its push into electrified propulsion, the engine maker has signed an agreement to establish facilities in Germany for developing, testing and producing hybrid-electric power trains.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
U.S. battery startup Lyten is looking to electric aircraft as a potential early market for its energy-dense lithium-sulfur batteries as it scales up to meet expected demand from the automotive industry by 2025-26.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Airbus' Zephyr team is also claiming to have set a world altitude record for the HAPS-class of UAS after reaching a height of 76,100 ft.
AUSA

By Graham Warwick
A shift from electric and hybrid-electric propulsion toward hydrogen is evident among sustainable aircraft projects announced so far this year, according to European consultancy Roland Berger.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup Prometheus Fuels expects to begin delivering commercial quantities of its carbon-neutral sustainable aviation fuel toward the end of 2022.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
OneWeb and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) have signed a letter of intent to fly OneWeb broadband satellites aboard Indian’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle and the heavier-lift Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle from India beginning next year.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
FitIndustry has started Tier 1 operations for major aircraft OEMs after taking over all remaining employees and assets from Ruag International.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Brian Everstine
The impacts of climate change will permeate all of the U.S. military’s plans and operations, and the Pentagon says it needs to make big changes not only to address those impacts but also to get ahead of its strategic competitors.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Startup VerdeGo Aero has validated the efficiency of its VH-3 hybrid-electric powerplant in more than 500 full-scale ground tests of prototype systems since mid-2020.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Rick Ambrose, Lockheed Martin’s executive vice president for space and a well-known industry veteran, will retire March 1, 2022, the company announced late Oct. 7.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Oxford University spinout Brill Power has launched a new type of battery management system that can increase storage capacity and lifetime.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
EC Power has received a U.S. Air Force contract to develop a lithium-ion battery cell capable of extreme fast charging of electrified aircraft and ground vehicles.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Italy has dropped plans to purchase the Piaggio P.1HH Hammerhead unmanned air system but will proceed with the buy of six P.180 Avanti turboprops.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Global Medical Response is buying single-engine H125s and H130s and twin-engine H135s.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne, Steve Trimble
Turkey is reportedly looking to acquire Block 70-standard F-16s, and would upgrade around 80 of its Block 50 aircraft to the F-16V standard.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Oslo is to provide NOK365.6 million ($42.85 million) in equity and grants to Andoya Space, which aims to begin launches next year.
Space

By Graham Warwick
The aim of the collaboration is to reduce the weight and improve the durability of HyPoint’s hydrogen fuel cell.
Emerging Technologies

By Irene Klotz
With more countries and companies eyeing missions to Mars, a U.S. National Academy of Science report recommends NASA develop and demonstrate a more nuanced, flexible approach toward meeting planetary protection protocols for landed missions, while still protecting potentially habitable zones from contamination by Earth microbes.
Space