Aerospace Emerging Technologies
Oct 26, 2022
Woodward is likely far from the last large aerospace and defense company to announce a post-pandemic business restructuring.
Oct 26, 2022
The service’s experiment has become the Pentagon’s lead JADC2 proving ground, but more work is needed to connect sensors and shooters.
Oct 25, 2022
While the Air Force shifts focus toward a future KC-Z, some on Capitol Hill say the planned 2040 fielding date leaves too long of a gap.
Oct 25, 2022
MagniX adds fuel cells; Electric propulsion standards; Net-zero competition; Drag-reducing AeroShark.
Oct 24, 2022
SAF is seen as the most realistic near-term option to cut aviation emissions, but securing more supply is an obstacle for the industry.
Jun 23, 2022
Redwire has sold what it says is the “first” space-manufactured optical crystal, to researchers at Ohio State University.
Jun 23, 2022
As Europe’s Clean Sky 2 research and technology project is nearing the end, Airbus and industry partners are expected to complete the construction of their multifunction fuselage demonstrator, aiming at lower cost and weight and fast-paced manufacturing.
Jun 21, 2022
The inferiority of batteries as energy sources compared with aviation fuel is widely accepted. Yet electric aviation startups continue to push the envelope of what battery-powered aircraft can achieve.
Jun 17, 2022
A German startup plans to demonstrate the weight-saving structural integration of a battery system into a wing as the first step toward developing a nine-passenger all-electric regional airliner with a range of 270 nm.
Jun 17, 2022
The flight, which marked the first time Roc had flown at altitudes required for effective launch trajectories of Stratolaunch’s Talon-A hypersonic test vehicle, lasted just over three hours.
Jun 16, 2022
Boeing is modifying a 777-200ER into a testbed for 30 new technologies in the latest campaign of the company’s 10-year-long ecoDemonstrator evaluation program.
Jun 14, 2022
DARPA has launched a new project that sees a fresh role for the U.S. Air Force fleet of aerial tankers as airborne recharging points for networks of electric-powered UAS by adding a wing-mounted laser pod.
Jun 10, 2022
Building on its involvement in a UK project that set a speed record for electric aircraft, energy storage specialist Electroflight has introduced a battery system designed to be available off the shelf for use in the early development of electric aircraft.