Aerospace

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Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

SpaceShipTwo returns to suborbital space after 27-month hiatus.

Electric Power Systems has unveiled its first certified commercial battery system for electric-powered aircraft.

QUESTEK INNOVATIONS, IL received Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards from Office of Naval Research to develop software tool to improve

Constellation operator OneWeb is to lead a consortium of UK companies in developing a next-generation beam-hopping low Earth orbit communications satellite.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has dismissed OHB System’s request to reverse the European Space Agency’s decision to exclude the company from a program creating the second generation of Galileo navigation satellites.

UK vertiport developer Skyports has signed agreements to help develop infrastructure for advanced air mobility in Ireland and South Korea.

FALCO, AZ broke ground on 25,000 sq ft manufacturing facility near Phoenix for producing hard alloy aluminum shapes, rod, bar and forging stock.

JETTAINER was selected by Etihad Cargo to manage its cool containers under cool&fly program. It has managed/maintained Etihad’s ULD fleet since 2011.

PwC reports the global aerospace and defense industry earned $25b on $697b revenues in 2020 vs $65b on $754b in 2019, down primarily due to impacts of

FAA says Boeing will pay at least $17m in penalties to settle enforcement cases on 737. It found equipment was installed on 759 737s with sensors not

AIRBUS updated suppliers with plans to produce an average of 45 A320 Family aircraft per month in 4Q21, increasing to 64 by 2Q23 and possibly 70 by

Volocopter and Near Earth Autonomy are to test autonomous flight technology on the VoloDrone unmanned cargo aircraft. The team plans a beyond-visual-line-of-sight capability demonstration in Munich in 2022.

Both Airbus and Boeing are looking at big boosts in production of their narrowbody jets. But with some regions of the world still closed to outsiders, the widebody market is a different story.

Airbus Helicopters has performed the first retrofit to convert a four-blade H145 twin-engine light rotorcraft into a five-blade model.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket delivered the 29th batch of Starlink satellites into orbit on May 26 as the company expanded beta trials of its high-speed internet service to Belgium and the Netherlands.

Validating the quiet supersonic performance of NASA’s X-59 QueSST low-boom flight demonstrator will require precise measurement of the shock waves generated by the aircraft and how they propagate through the atmosphere to the ground.

Europe’s aviation regulator believes commercial use of electric air taxis could begin by 2024-25, but that it will take at least five more years to enable autonomous passenger transport, the holy grail for ubiquitous and affordable urban air mobility.

U.S. startup Exosonic has completed low-speed wind-tunnel tests of its concept for a low-boom supersonic airliner.

Model-based systems engineering is emerging as a potential solution to aerospace’s slow, costly processes.

Oversupply to market has yielded big, young in-service fleets, which means the current lull has, in part, been a self-inflicted wound.

China’s EHang has unveiled its longer-range electric air taxi, the autonomous two-seat VT-30.

AMETEK AMERON received FAA PMA for its direct drop replacement discharge outlets for OEM 224 cubic-inch dual outlet fire extinguisher installed on

GARMIN acquired AERODATA, AZ (aircraft performance/W&B software).