India’s premier space agency has signed an agreement with Russian firm Glavkosmos to help select and prepare astronauts for the country’s first human spaceflight mission, Gaganyaan.
A process combining forging with 3D printing to produce complex titanium parts is being developed by Aubert & Duval with Airbus and metal additive manufacturing specialist Sciaky.
Hybrid-electric regional aircraft startup Zunum Aero has launched a new fund-raising bid, having failed in earlier efforts to raise the investment required to continue development of its 12-passenger ZA10.
A startup founded by four former members of the Airbus E-Fan electric aircraft team has partnered with French aerospace research agency Onera and airport operator Groupe ADP to advance plans to develop an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) for urban, intercity and regional flights.
Dell Federal Systems LP, Round Rock, Texas, has been awarded a $35,800,000 firm-fixed-price contract for mobile interceptor platform and deployable interceptor platform.
Gyroplane developer Skyworks Global has struck a deal with the government of Serbia to produce a five-seat aircraft, targeted at developing nations, that can operate without requiring runways.
The future of the pan-European EuroMALE (medium altitude, long-endurance) unmanned air system has become hazy after French government officials described the platform as “obese” because of German requirements.
Two Republican senators from Iowa have raised concerns about Boeing’s exports of commercial satellites to companies that allegedly are financed by state-owned Chinese firms or provide bandwidth rented by entities on behalf of the Chinese military.
NASA has selected a dozen science and technology missions for launches to the Moon as payloads aboard the agency’s recently initiated Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
The U.S. Air Force has implemented the first virtual reality training system for airfield management students so that they get more of a hands-on learning experience.
The successful abort test sets the stage for the next milestone in the U.S. human lunar return—the Artemis 1 flight test, a planned multi-week, uncrewed SLS/Orion trip around the Moon set for late 2020 or early 2021.
Boeing has started the T-X flight test program for the engineering, manufacturing and development program with the first two modified, company-funded prototypes.
Congress is either wildly for or against middle-tier acquisition practices because the process is new and information lacking, a U.S. Air Force official says.
Israel’s SpaceIL is evaluating options for the mission of Beresheet 2 (Genesis 2), the successor to the journey of its robotic lander that crashed into the Moon.
The European Aviation Safety Agency has brought the rollout of VTOL flights one step closer with the release on July 2 of a special condition to enable the safe operation of hybrid and electric VTOL aircraft.
Embraer has unveiled a digital platform designed to connect and synchronize the different services and resources required to minimize downtime caused by unscheduled aircraft maintenance.
For Signature Flight Support, an accord to provide ground-based operations for Uber’s nascent aerial-ridesharing service is part of a strategy to make more use of its network of FBOs.
