Emerging Technologies

As part of a demonstration, Astrobotic will use an AI-enabled software program to control and monitor its CubeRover lunar rover on its upcoming Moon mission.

Novel hydrogen storage; Solar Skydweller flies uncrewed; Avic’s large cargo UAV; and UK integrated electric ducted fan.

The idea of a “warehouse in the sky” is not new.

The flight-test campaign marked beginning of an effort to integrate various components of automation into an aircraft to build up to true end-to-end autonomy.

The funding will be used to jointly develop technologies with the U.S. for a fission nuclear system for space power applications.

The 236-ft.-wingspan aircraft flew from Stennis International Airport in Mississippi over the Gulf of Mexico.

Sierra Space has begun initial drop tests of Ghost, a deployable decelerator designed to protect a pre-staged payload during re-entry within 90 min. of call-up.

Riyadh Air has signed a strategic partnership aimed at revolutionising the aviation industry through AI applications.

California-based NovaDev is aiming its planned EcoFlight EF-5C at replacing aging Boeing 757/767 freighters.

Guy Norris talks with CEO Tom Vice about the spinoff-turned-prime’s growth plans as its space defense business surges and its spaceplane prepares for flight.

China’s AVIC is preparing to fly the HH-100, an uncrewed cargo aircraft developed by the civil aircraft division of Xi’an Aircraft.

New SITA white paper highlights how biometric-driven IT solutions are being successfully rolled out around the world.

The U.S. military wants terminals to connect with multiple satellite constellations.

A new Royal Air Force strategy lays out plans for the introduction of larger systems after having developed small, swarming platforms.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

The commission and major sustainable aviation fuel producer send reassurance on mandate volumes.

The company is confident a spate of hardware issues and oversights are behind it.

The MoU is intended to enable collaboration to identify research, development, demonstration, and deployment opportunities for sustainable aviation technologies

Flight tests of the Rolls-Royce Pearl 10X engine for the ultra-long-range Dassault Falcon 10X business jet have begun following delivery of the company’s Boeing 747-200 flying testbed fitted with the test engine to its Tucson facility in Arizona.

Demonstrators built under Clean Sky 2, the project’s predecessor, were exhibited at the annual forum as a source of motivation.

The rebirth of faster-than-sound civil transport remains a pipedream to many, but it is making material headway in Southern California.

Rolls-Royce has begun bench tests of its first 320-kW electric motor demonstrator for potential regional aircraft applications.

The two front-runners in the nascent U.S. air taxi market have staked out sharply different paths in their manufacturing strategies.

Future battlefields with dispersed units and contested logistics are driving DARPA’s new portfolio of disruptive investments.

In a wide-ranging interview, Culp talks about the new company’s future and says he has no interest in taking his turnaround skills to Boeing.