Aerospace

Counter-drone systems specialist Dedrone has landed $30.5 million in Series C venture capital, the company announced Dec. 17, and is working to be able to detect, identify and track more than 200 different UAS.

Stoke Space, a startup trying to develop a completely reusable rocket for the burgeoning commercial satellite market, has closed a $65 million Series A venture capital round that will go toward developing a rapidly repeatable second-stage segment.

T3TECH has completed physical and records inspection of one 777-200ER for an undisclosed European customer.

BOEING notified shareholders of proposed settlement over 737 MAX crashes; under settlement, Boeing's insurers will pay $237.5m, minus attorneys' fees

Bristow's partnership with California-based Overair covers the potential purchase of 20-50 of the startup’s Butterfly quad-tiltrotor platforms and collaboration on commercialization of the platform.

The aerospace and defense industry enters 2022 facing many of the same concerns it faced in 2021.

With backing from United Airlines, ZeroAvia expands its hydrogen-electric propulsion technology to regional jets.

Major events in aerospace and defense during 2021.

Virgin Orbit is taking a 17.5% stake in partner Hypersat as the companies work to launch a six-satellite constellation to provide hyperspectral imaging from low Earth orbit.

UK electric air mobility startup Vertical Aerospace has listed publicly on the New York Stock Exchange after completing a merger with blank-check company Broadstone Acquisition that did not perform as well as hoped for.

Karim Jalbout to Chief People Officer of Lilium, Munich.

AVIA SOLUTIONS GROUP entered into strategic partnership with CERTARES MANAGEMENT, with additional investment from KNIGHTHEAD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

ASCEND BY CIRIUM, UK forecasts delivery of about 45,000 new aircraft worth US$2.9 trillion over next 20 years, 4% higher than last year's forecast

VERTICAL AEROSPACE, UK completed business combination with BROADSTONE ACQUISITION and went public on NYSE to finance development of its VX4 eVTOL

HEICO FLIGHT SUPPORT GROUP earned $152m on $927m sales in year ended Oct 31 vs $143m on $925m a year ago.

ENTROL installed an en-1000x FNPT II simulator at European Pilot Academy, Malta, upgrading its PA34 FNPT II simulator.

Edward Neo to General Manager for Sales-APAC, based in Singapore, of Jettainer.

RECARO was selected by Cebu Pacific to supply SL3710 economy class seats (459 per ship) for 16 A330-900s through 2025.

CHAMP AEROSYSTEMS, Luxembourg extended deal with Japan Airlines to manage day-to-day cargo business processes.

H3 DYNAMICS, France completed wind tunnel tests of long-range unmanned hydrogen test aircraft (under MERMOZ program) in preparation of first test

CT, Spain was named by Airbus as preferred EMES3 supplier and secured multi-year contract to provide engineering, manufacturing engineering and

SIMULATOR TRAINING SOLUTIONS re-certified with EASA its Dornier 328 full-flight simulator at Velbert/Essen (near Düsseldorf) in cooperation with

LIEBHERR-AEROSPACE BRASIL was approved by Embraer to provide component mechanical assembly and sandblasting (Bright Shot Peening).

The MU-B200 is a 200-kg (441-lb.) 1.2 kW satellite that aims to provide 5-Gbps (V-band) communications over Southeast Asia.

Two commercial positioning and communication satellites onboard—GeeSAT-1A and 1B—were lost in the Dec. 15 failure.