Germany

By Tony Osborne
RFA was granted £3.5 million ($4.3 million) by the UK Space Agency.
Space

Aviation Week Staff
Europe’s space workforce grew by 8.2% in 2022 over the prior year, the Space Foundation says in a quarterly report on the state of the space industry.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
A team of European rocket developers are to help prove German ambitions for sat launch at sea with a series of suborbital launches planned for spring 2024.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
UK-based Helix started out as an automotive combustion engine consultancy business called Integrated Powertrain.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
German industry is urging the government in Berlin to urgently decide on future investments in the Eurofighter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
More AIM-9M Sidewinders are on the way to Ukraine to further bolster air defenses.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Denmark, Finland, Germany and the UK announced their intentions Oct. 10 ahead of the meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group being held in Brussels.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Germany has launched a pilot project combining uncrewed aircraft and electric bikes to deliver groceries to residents.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army is still looking for a home for its newly developed small, expeditionary multi-domain force in the Pacific.
Budget, Policy & Operations

Aviation Week Staff
China plans to double the size of its Tiangong space station to accommodate experiments from international customers and partners.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Airbus has begun constructing a new maintenance facility for Germany’s fleet of A400M airlifters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Germany has put the first of its new-generation synthetic aperture radar satellites into operational use.
Space

By Helen Chachaty
Maintainers serving with the Franco-German airlift squadron flying the C-130J Hercules will shortly begin training in a new facility developed by the OEM.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Staff
Deutsche Aircraft has completed powered-model wind tunnel testing of its D328 Alpha hydrogen-electric propulsion demonstrator.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Germany is proceeding with the purchase of Israel’s Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile defense system.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is lobbying German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to allow a potential sale of Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft to Saudi Arabia.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters has unveiled a third technology demonstrator, this time based on its H145 twin-engine light rotorcraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters says it is testing a new architecture for its H135 twin-engine light helicopter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The German defense ministry has completed trials of a laser weapon demonstrator that could equip warships for anti-drone defense.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
The milestone follows completion of an industrial program review by Lilium and Aciturri in late August.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Walther Pelzer, the director general of the German Space Agency, participated in a signing ceremony.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Stuttgart-based H2Fly completed four flights of its HY4 testbed aircraft from Maribor, Slovenia, in September.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Kurt Hofmann
Discover Airlines CEO Bernd Bauer said the German leisure carrier is on track to acquire six Airbus A320s and grow its fleet size to 28 aircraft in 2024.
Airlines & Lessors

By Tony Osborne
A consortium of German companies has been contracted to begin building the IT platform that is expected to produce the AI systems for the European FCAS.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Lockheed Martin’s P-3 Orion maritime patroller looks set to have an extended operational life in Europe after Portugal purchased Germany’s fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion