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By Irene Klotz
The customer slated to launch on the first flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket now expects to fly in mid-2022.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Irish cargo airline operator ASL Aviation Holdings plans to convert up to 10 ATR 72s to zero-emission fuel-cell propulsion after signing a letter of intent to be Universal Hydrogen’s (UH2) launch customer in the cargo turboprop market.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Volocopter and logistics company DB Schenker conducted the first public demonstration of the VoloDrone heavy-lift unmanned cargo aircraft at the ITS World Congress in Hamburg on Oct. 12.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Major small-satellite launcher Rocket Lab is making good on plowing some of its new publicly provided cash haul into bolt-on acquisitions.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The cargo ship transporting the James Webb Space Telescope arrived in French Guiana on Oct. 12, completing a 1,500-mi. journey that sets the stage for the observatory’s launch aboard an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket on Dec. 18.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Airbus has started production of the UK’s new £500 million ($679.5 million) Skynet 6A satellite, which is due for launch in 2025.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
UK space launch startup Skyrora has signed agreements to use the SaxaVord spaceport on the Shetland Islands for satellite launch as early as 2022.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Austrian startup CycloTech has begun tethered flight tests of a demonstrator equipped with its cycloidal rotor technology for vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army needs to answer fundamental questions about itself—how it fights, what theaters it needs to focus on, and importantly how it will modernize its weapons systems specifically to counter China—and that process will not be easy, the service’s newest secretary says.
AUSA

By Chen Chuanren
October is an important month for China, both for the People’s Republic and the Republic across the strait, Taiwan.
AUSA

By Michael Bruno
Lessor LCI Helicopters’ parent has bought out minority stakeholder KKR, returning ownership to the founding Libra Group after seven years, the companies announced Oct. 11.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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