Connected Aerospace

Mangata Networks, a satellite-based connectivity, plans to showcase its initial network in early 2023, potentially launch eight highly elliptical-orbit satellites that year and then inaugurate service in 2024 for the Northern Hemisphere.

Three different alternative navigation technologies have been flight tested in a regional jet and helicopter.

As it took over FlightAware, Collins stood up its Connected Aviation Solutions division.

Hybrid Dash 8 batteries; Nuclear-powered spacecraft; Inside Lilium’s eVTOL; Infrared-welded thermoplastics; Forming antennas in space.

Satcom Direct (SD) is nearing commercial introduction of its Plane Simple Antenna System supporting inflight broadband connectivity for business aviation using the Intelsat FlexExec network.

Satellite operator Inmarsat and equipment supplier Honeywell have launched SwiftJet, an enhanced L-band satcoms service for business aviation, at EBACE 2022.

The new inflight broadband service for bizjets will access OneWeb’s constellation using a new electronically steered antenna (ESA) that Gogo has designed in conjunction with Hughes Network Systems.

What’s the outlook for IFE? Will all airline passengers be able to stream with their own devices eventually?

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) is seeing results from its partnership with Google Cloud that supports its flight operations, utilizing the technology provider’s artificial intelligence software to improve decision making.

Launch contracts are game changers for ULA, Arianespace and Blue Origin.

Air Corsica’s management team sees its recently obtained approval to adopt satellite technology as the future for landing on challenging runways.

NASA requests funds to accelerate Sustainable Flight Demonstrator program to fly ultraefficient X-plane.

Pilots are gaining access to more data and contributing to aggregation programs, and operators are benefiting.

A cyberattack on Viasat’s KA-SAT network has the commercial communications satellite industry bracing for more.

Trade sanctions against Russia leave European missions grounded.

Long in the making, space-based optical communications is finally joining the mainstream.

Cyberactivity targeting the aerospace and defense industry is intense, and the ecosystem that must be protected is more complex than ever.

With commercial LEO satellite constellations growing tenfold and governments eager to tap new-space, lasers comms’ have arrived.

Private equity firm DC Capital Partners has bought uAvionix, a seven-year-old developer and manufacturer of miniature avionics for communications, navigation and surveillance applications, including for unmanned aircraft.

UK startup Stratospheric Platforms has demonstrated the ability to transmit 5G cell phone signals from a high altitude.

Italy’s Manta Aircraft has named partners in development of the ANN2 hybrid-electric ducted-fan eVTOL, aiming for certification in 2025.

The air navigation service providers of the UK and Canada are to abolish the use of the North Atlantic Organized Track Structure (OTS) for flights below FL330 (33,000 ft.) from March 1.

The air cargo industry needs to ramp up digitalization, but it’s a slow path.

The Tempest will feature the Isanke system, which will link all of the fighter's onboard sensors to transform pilot understanding of the battlespace.

Bell Textron has successfully demonstrated operation of its Autonomous Pod Transport (APT) 70 unmanned cargo aircraft with a ground-based detect and avoid system as part of broader infrastructure development efforts for advanced air mobility.