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By Graham Warwick
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has demonstrated an end-to-end delivery operation using an unmanned cargo aircraft and a ground robot.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The first so-called gigafactory built by a European battery company has been commissioned, with the assembly of its first lithium-ion cell.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
UK rotorcraft startup Hill Helicopters claims to be outselling its competitors and capturing a sizable share of the single-engine light helicopter general aviation market.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The European Space Agency has backed the Biden administration’s commitment to extending International Space Station operations through 2030.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A new initiative by the Biden administration has thrust the U.S. defense industry to the forefront of a national campaign to emit no more greenhouse gases than are removed from the atmosphere by 2050.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
Japan’s Kyoto University and Sumitomo Forestry Co. are planning a 2023 mission to launch what they claim to be the first orbiting wooden satellite.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. and Israeli Ministry of Defense on Dec. 30 formalized a deal for 12 Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopters and two additional Boeing KC-46 Pegasus refueling tankers.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Bill Carey
Behind the scenes of the aviation and telecommunications industries’ clash over 5G wireless transmissions, aviation standards organization RTCA is developing performance specifications for a new generation of radio altimeters that would be hardened against 5G interference.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Michael Bruno
Addman Engineering, the additive manufacturing rollup under private equity investor American Industrial Partners, has acquired Castheon, a refractory metals maker that has partnered with spacecraft-providing companies, the companies announced Jan. 3.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Large U.S. defense prime contractor L3Harris Technologies has reorganized to include just three main business divisions, with Aviation Systems and its top unit executive no longer part of the company’s structure.
Commercial Space

By Bill Carey
Telecommunications giants AT&T and Verizon have refused a high-level U.S. government appeal to delay activating new 5G wireless networks on Jan. 5 as scheduled, offering instead to draw temporary exclusion zones around certain airports to protect against the possibility of interference with aircraft radio altimeters.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
As ZeroAvia prepares to fly its modified Dornier 228 hydrogen-electric propulsion system testbed, details of the mobile refueling system that will support flight testing are emerging.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
After successfully unfurling the James Webb Space Telescope’s tennis court-sized sunshield, flight controllers on Jan. 3 completed tensioning three of the shield’s five diamond-shaped membranes.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Last year’s delivery total of 142 raises overall fleet deliveries to 753 aircraft, with 397 — or about 53% — coming in the last three years alone.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Denmark’s government has set the goal of all domestic aviation being fossil-free by 2030, potentially through a combination of sustainable aviation fuel and electric and hydrogen propulsion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
UK startup Electric Aircraft Group and the University of Nottingham plan to establish a joint venture to develop megawatt-class electric propulsion systems.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The Royal Thai Air Force is considering purchasing as many as eight Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning IIs as part of its modernization to replace its aging fleet of Northrop F-5E/Fs and F-16A/Bs.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Maxim Pyadushkin
The new Persei booster for Russia’s Angara 5A heavy rocket failed to deliver a dummy payload to its final geostationary orbit.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The reconfiguration of the James Webb Space Telescope continued on Dec. 30 with the removal of covers that protected the observatory’s delicate sunshield for launch, setting the stage for the deployment of a five-layer, tennis court-sized structure needed to passively cool the telescope for its science program.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The Netherlands has become the latest country to declare its F-35 fleet operational.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
“There’s 344 things that now have to work perfectly,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a post-launch interview.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA and Roscosmos continue to pursue an astronaut/cosmonaut crew exchange agreement for Soyuz and NASA Commercial Crew launches to the International Space Station.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
A new Inmarsat I-6 F1 satellite was successfully put into orbit by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on Dec 23.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
After awarding about $8 billion in contracts to adversary air and other private air support providers from fiscal 2015 to 2020, the U.S. military services are reviewing the performance of these companies to understand how they can better and more cost-effectively train aircrews.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Startup company Volansi has jumped into the competition to replace the U.S. Army’s Textron RQ-7 Shadow, partnering with Sierra Nevada.
Multi-Mission Aircraft