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Mike Madsen
Honeywell Aerospace President and CEO Mike Madsen on the aviation industry's sustainability challenges and solutions.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The grounding of more than 100 C-130Hs will extend to months or even years, depending on how quickly new propeller systems can be procured from a production line that already has orders to work through while the service is searching across the globe for existing propellers to retrofit.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Despite the malfunction of a solar array, the freighter still carried out the required rendezvous maneuvers within the power constraints.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Germany’s H2Fly has begun the integration of a liquid-hydrogen storage tank into its Hy4 fuel cell propulsion test aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Astra Space on Nov. 8 announced layoffs of 16% of its workforce and $119 million in write-downs of assets as the struggling rocket startup seeks a “financial runway” into 2024 amid a major business plan change.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
The Biden administration’s push to arm Ukraine in its war with Russia has highlighted supply chain issues.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 8 stepped up preparations for Tropical Storm Nicole, which is expected to bring sustained winds of at least 39 mph to the area.
Space

By Brian Everstine
At the top of Air Mobility Command’s wish list, and among its biggest challenges, is connecting its aircraft through common datalinks and communication channels so that refueling tankers and airlifters can provide more to a fight beyond their traditional roles.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon is consulting with Ukraine on how to integrate Western, NATO standard air defense systems with its existing stock of Soviet-era systems as the first U.S.-provided advanced ground-to-air missile systems have arrived in the country’s war with Russia.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
German emergency medical service operator ADAC Air Rescue envisions replacing fleets of medical vehicles with electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to transport doctors to emergency scenes.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
International production of the attack helicopter will continue for Bahrain and the Czech Republic, as Bell continues to seek addition foreign orders.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
A rebound in the commercial rotorcraft market is being hampered by a constrained supply chain that is impacting the supplies of electronic components and materials for engines, Safran Helicopter Engines CEO Franck Saudo says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The single-port Sirius engine will be used to power the Eris, Australia’s first orbital rocket, which is set to launch in 2023.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
This is the first FAA TSO-certified avionics component to be developed and manufactured by a company in China.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Irene Klotz
Intelsat is turning to Switzerland-based SWISSto12 to provide a small geostationary satellite outfitted with 12 Ku-band transponders for regional communications services.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Shortly after its liftoff early Nov. 7 from NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus International Space Station resupply capsule experienced a difficulty with the deployment of the second of its two solar arrays.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Israel’s Gadfin Aero-Logistics Systems has secured a service contract from the country’s largest medical logistics company to operate an on-demand drone delivery network connecting all of the country’s major hospitals, flying medical supplies over a radius of up to 200 km (125 mi.).
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
The Netherlands Coastguard has introduced a new fleet of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft to support its environmental security and search-and-rescue missions.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo says Norway’s request to terminate its NH90 helicopter program is “legally groundless” and suggests Oslo’s claim misinterprets the contract and the country’s own law.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Give the Ukrainian military Saab Gripen C/D fighters and Textron Systems CBU-105 Sensor Fused Weapon munitions soon, a UK-based defense think-tank recommends.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
Australian electric air taxi startup AMSL Aero is among 12 projects that have been awarded federal government grants under the first round of the Emerging Aviation Technology Partnerships program.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
The first of the UK Royal Air Force’s new Boeing E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft has had its radar fitted in a milestone of the conversion process.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Mark Carreau
The Antares' cargo delivery of 8,265 lb. represents an increased launch capability of about 154 lb. (70 kg) due to modifications to the rocket’s secondary support structure.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Romania will receive 32 Norwegian F-16A/B Fighting Falcons in a €388 million transfer.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
An independent review board has concluded that a number of factors—including communications lapses, a lack of staffing, budget challenges and pandemic-related workplace culture changes—contributed to NASA’s delay in launching the $985 million Psyche mission to a metal-rich asteroid until October 2023.
Space