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By Graham Warwick
Africa has emerged as a proving ground for drone delivery, headlined by Zipline’s large-scale on-demand medical delivery networks in Rwanda, Ghana and now Nigeria. Now the continent is turning its attention to urban air mobility.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Tokyo-based startup SkyDrive has begun cooperating with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on aerodynamic research to support development of its planned electric urban air vehicle.
Emerging Technologies

By Michael Bruno
TransDigm Group is bidding 13% more for Meggitt than Parker Hannifin, the first two companies revealed Aug. 11.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Jen DiMascio
Within the month, the Joint Staff plans to hold an industry day, according to U.S. Air Force Gen. John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
PALMDALE, CALIFORNIA—To a soundtrack of “Levitating” by English pop singer Dua Lipa, about 100 suit-clad dignitaries filed into Building 658 on the
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo and Babcock have formally team to combine their offers to provide Canada’s Future Aircrew Training program.
Maintenance & Training

By Graham Warwick
Joby Aviation has begun trading on the New York Stock Exchange, a milestone on its 15-year journey to launch commercial aerial ridesharing services in the U.S. in 2024.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
The Korean Coast Guard (KCG) has procured two Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KUH-1CG Surion search and rescue helicopters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The Cygnus carries nearly 8,210 lb. of crew supplies, science experiments and technology development projects.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. Army’s next installment of Project Convergence—an experiment that seeks to link disparate military platforms—will involve all three services and focus on maximizing the use of data and sharing it across the joint force, according to the deputy commander of Army Futures Command.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
Efforts by NASA to develop a next-generation spacesuit face significant cost and schedule challenges that will push back its availability to April 2025 at the earliest, according to audit by the agency’s inspector general.
Space

By Bill Carey
Business-aviation and air-medical services provider Aero-Dienst on Aug. 10 announced a four-year contract award from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to maintain its Dassault Falcon 2000LX Inflight Systems and Technology Airborne Research aircraft.
Business Aviation

By Mark Carreau
Intuitive Machines, one of NASA’s initial Commercial Lunar Payload Services providers, has selected the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for the first-quarter-2024 launch of its third mission to the Moon.
Space

By Graham Warwick
General Electric has signed a memorandum of understanding to supply a customized variant of the CT7-8 turboshaft engine to power startup Transcend Air’s planned Vy 400 tiltwing vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The test brings ZeroAvia a step closer to first flight of a Dornier 228 testbed powered by the system before the end of the year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
The U.S. Space Force’s Rocket Systems Launch Program Office has added ABL Space Systems, Astra Space and Relativity Space to work toward a quick-launch effort under the Orbital Services Program-4.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Hybrid Air Vehicles, the developer of the Airlander airship, is to collaborate with the U.S. Navy’s Naval Postgraduate School to study of the use of hybrid aircraft technologies in military applications.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Plans for the center will be welcomed by the U.S. high-speed systems development community, which for years has highlighted the shortage of adequate centralized hypersonic test facilities.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The FAA is closing in on its first special condition for type certification of an electric propulsion system, and acknowledges that amending requirements developed over decades for piston and turbine engines is proving challenging.
Emerging Technologies

By Chen Chuanren
The organizers of the Australian International Airshow, better known as the Avalon Airshow, have canceled this year’s event as they acknowledged the “unpredictable environment” brought about by the Delta strain of COVID-19.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA and Russian federal space agency Roscosmos are assembling teams of experts to assess the unanticipated thruster firings of Russia’s Nauka module following its docking with the International Space Station.
Space

By Michael Bruno
SpaceX apparently has acquired Silicon Valley small-satellite maker Swarm Technologies, according to a U.S. Federal Communications Commission filing in which SpaceX seeks to obtain the startup’s mobile satellite-service licenses.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA is seeking a quartet of applicants for the first in a series of three planned year-long simulations of life on Mars intended to evaluate how human explorers might respond to limited resources, equipment failures, communications delays and environmental stresses.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The existence of the new production facility also points to a likely return by the Skunk Works to a series manufacturing role after spending most of the last four decades focused on being a rapid prototyping arm and future concepts developer.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Startup space vehicle maker Firefly Aerospace continues to roll out offerings, announcing a new line of business dedicated to supplying rocket engines and components to the emerging new-space industry.
Space