Aerospace Emerging Technologies

Mar 14, 2022
Whisper’s quiet drone; Avoiding satellite collision; Refueling in space; Hypersonic funding boost; and Rapid hydrogen refueling.
Mar 11, 2022
European defense technology firm MARSS develops an aerial ram to hard-kill drone swarms.
Mar 07, 2022
SAF from sunlight; Rotating detonation engine; Composite cryogenic tank; Turbine weight saving; Dutch electric flight.
Mar 04, 2022
Production of SAF from many sources other than cooking oil is coming online.
Mar 03, 2022
Airlines and airports believe that contactless technologies, in use at all stages of the air travel process from border control to onboard lavatories, are here to stay.
Jul 26, 2021
Backed by XPeng Motors, startup XPeng Huitian has flown the Voyager X2, a two-seat multicopter described as its fifth generation of electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle.
Jul 23, 2021
Customers will be able to reserve fractional shares or whole aircraft when the program opens at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh show from July 26.
Jul 23, 2021
Rolls-Royce's Power Generation System 1 (PGS1) demonstrator is designed to pave the way for future hybrid-electric regional propulsion system development.
Jul 22, 2021
Universal Hydrogen believes its modular capsule system could help power the next generation of electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles.
Jul 22, 2021
An initial project will create a digital twin of the UK’s airspace and then use machine learning to understand flight movements across the country in the hope of creating an AI system to support air traffic controllers.
Jul 22, 2021
The evaluation center would produce test reports on the performance of eVTOL and electric aircraft.
Jul 22, 2021
Gulfstream Aerospace has surpassed 500 installations of the Inmarsat Jet ConneX in-flight connectivity platform on large- cabin aircraft. The Wi-Fi solution is available on new aircraft and can be retrofitted on qualifying existing aircraft.
Jul 21, 2021
A feasibility study is to begin with Malaysia Airports as Volocopter and Skyports look to build out air taxi networks in the Asia-Pacific region.