Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Beta Technologies completes first eIPP flights delivering organs, demonstrating advanced air mobility operations in the national airspace system.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
JetZero uses AI agents and nTop’s geometry platform to accelerate design changes for its blended wing body aircraft across multiple configurations.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
As Rolls-Royce’s Trent 1000XE and XWB-84EP durability packages arrive on widebodies, it polishes the UltraFan 30 concept design for future single-aisles.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Business as usual is a vanishing prospect for the aerospace industry.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
DJI launches its first fixed-wing eVTOL drone, the EV50, which supports high-altitude missions and environmental cleanup on Mount Everest.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
GKN and Nottingham University advance cryogenic electric propulsion with HPDrive, focusing on scalable hydrogen-powered aircraft technologies.
Emerging Technologies

By Irene Klotz
NASA will provide the instruments, but they will be owned by Relativity, as will the data they collect, which the company plans to share with the science community.
Space Exploration

By Michael Bruno, Garrett Reim
As industry struggles to chip away at backlogs and speed up weaponry production, aerospace and defense manufacturers are embracing automation like never before.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Garrett Reim
BlackSky Technology says the U.S. government has awarded it a series of contracts to develop further AI-enabled “real-time” analysis of satellite images.
Satellites

By Victoria Moores
West Africa cuts aviation fees by 25% to make air travel more affordable, with ECOWAS leading efforts to improve regional integration and oversight.
Airports & Networks

By Graham Warwick
Gulfstream tests show 100% sustainable aviation fuel reduces contrail-forming emissions at high altitudes, helping mitigate aviation’s environmental impact.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Alan Dron
Airbus forecasts urbanization and middle-class growth will drive airliner demand through 2045, with 42,060 new aircraft needed globally.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
MagniX expands beyond aerospace, targeting defense, space, mobility and data centers with its electric powertrain technology.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
Venus Aerospace says a newly raised $91 million will advance its rotating detonation rocket engine technology toward full-scale deployment.
Emerging Technologies

By Steve Trimble, Guy Norris
As a first generation of hypersonic weapons in the U.S. nears fielding, the Pentagon has adopted a different set of goals than range and speed for the next.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Industry, academia and government are combining to rebuild the UK’s long-dormant hypersonics capability for the next generation of deep-strike weapons.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Garrett Reim
City Labs has launched a nuclear-battery powered cubesat into orbit from the SpaceX Transporter-17 rideshare mission.
Satellites

By Robert Wall
Airbus and MTU Aero Engines plan to formalize their efforts to work together on hydrogen fuel cells by establishing a joint venture set to be in place in 2027.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Radia continues emphasizing European suppliers for the planned WindRunner outsize-cargo aircraft as it targets NATO’s need for strategic military airlift.
Emerging Technologies

By Bill Carey
Multinational companies vying to provide the FAA with a core air traffic management software platform are defending their systems against cyber security concerns.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Tony Osborne
The next generation of RAF combat power will depend as much on autonomous systems and industrial resilience as on a new fighter aircraft.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
UAE plans to certify cargo eVTOL; India’s electric aircraft push; Radia’s outsize WindRunner progress; and boost for drag-reducing riblets.
Emerging Technologies

By Aaron Karp
Hamad International Airport launches biometric Fast Pass for Qatar Airways passengers, enabling faster check-in, bag drop, security and boarding.
Airports & Networks

By Garrett Reim
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched the Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center to scale up the production of quantum components.
Emerging Technologies

By Victoria Moores
Saudi researchers develop a laser sensor to detect early lithium-ion battery overheating, offering potential safety applications in air cargo and aviation.
Safety, Ops & Regulation