Aerospace Emerging Technologies

Aug 19, 2021
First, step on the scale. Next, business aviation FBOs are looking at ways to become more green.
Aug 19, 2021
Adding brains to the Reaper; Japan tests KC-46; BlackSky, Palantir team up; and U.S. Air Force hires Red 6 for T-38 synthetic training.
Aug 17, 2021
The Glide Breaker program is working on a new divert and attitude control system to counter hypersonic glide vehicles.
Aug 16, 2021
Embraer has begun flight testing an electric propulsion demonstrator as it targets the introduction of its first all-electric aircraft, the Eve urban air taxi, in 2026. 
Aug 16, 2021
Pyka electric regional; ZeroAvia hydrogen power train; Transcend picks Kaman; Robotic helicopter refueling; and SkyDrive teams with JAXA.
May 22, 2020
China has conducted its first remote tower operation at Xinyuan Nalati Airport (NLT) with a China Express Airlines flight controlled remotely from the Xinjiang Airport Group’s center in Urumqi, 385 km away. 
May 19, 2020
Lufthansa Group is to cooperate with Swiss technology institute ETH Zurich to accelerate the availability of aviation fuel produced using carbon dioxide and water extracted from the atmosphere using concentrated sunlight.
May 13, 2020
The Senate Armed Services Committee recently met to consider a bewildering decision by the FCC to OK the building of a low-power, ground-based network for 5G cellular and Internet of Things data services that opponents say could interfere with GPS receivers.
Apr 29, 2020
Fielding a technology that can expand the use of additive manufacturing in parts production, startup Velo3D has secured $28 million in Series D funding, taking total financing raised so far to $138 million.
Apr 28, 2020
Startup Skyryse is flight testing the software for the first application of its FlightOS automation system as it progresses toward certification of the aircraft-agnostic fly-by-wire (FBW) architecture on its first platform.
Apr 21, 2020
How the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry will fare in the aftermath of the COVID-19 impact on commercial aviation is far from clear. But most…
Apr 11, 2020
A TASS report offers the first timeline for fielding of the new weapon designed to strike maritime and land targets at up to Mach 9.
Apr 09, 2020
Europe will launch the public consultation on the technology road map for the proposed Clean Aviation public-private partnership that would follow the current Clean Sky 2 research program.