Aerospace

KANFIT3D, Israel installed SLM 280 system to begin 3D printing of medium-to-high-volume aluminum parts and prototypes using selective laser melting.

Michael J. Warren to a Partner of Liberty Hall Capital Partners, Charleston, SC.

As Virgin Galactic enters final preparations for the first rocket-powered flight of SpaceShipTwo from its Spaceport America operational facility in New Mexico, the company has added two additional pilots to its ranks.

COLLINS AEROSPACE earned $526m on $4.3b sales in 3Q20 vs $1.3b on $6.5b in 3Q19; commercial aftermarket fell 52%.

PRATT & WHITNEY posted $615m loss on $3.5b sales in 3Q20 vs $520m profit on $5.3b in 3Q19; commercial aftermarket sales fell 51%, but military sales

ONTIC has acquired manufacturing rights from Pratt & Whitney Canada for additional JT15D parts (fourth phase of a process that started back in 2015)

Guidance, navigation and control (GNC) software for Stratolaunch’s Talon-A hypersonic flying testbed has passed a preliminary design review and is being readied by developer Draper for loading next year into the vehicle’s flight control computers.

AIRCRAFT TOWING SYSTEMS WORLD WIDE, OK has developed an automated aircraft towing system prototype that uses electric-powered pull car/tow dolly and

A 15th batch of Starlink satellites reached orbit on Oct. 24, SpaceX’s second launch within a week to build up an initial 1,450-member broadband communications network.

The U.S. Space Force has not closed the door on helping industry fund a “manufacturing on orbit” concept, meaning building parts for satellites while in space, according to the service’s acquisition executive.

If the current fragile jetliner market worsens, the U.S. and other governments might feel pressure to reconsider their nonintervention.

AIRBUS is considering an increase of A320 Family production in 2H21 from 40 to 47 per month, and has asked supply chain to prepare; it stresses no

BARNES AEROSPACE earned $6.8m on $72.1m sales in 3Q20 vs $32.7m on $140.9m in 3Q19; OEM backlog stands at $534m, down 4% from June 2020

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS reduced purchase price from $500m to $275m to acquire Bombardier’s aerostructures activities and aftermarket services operations in

Ask the Editors: There is room for both and overlap between both, and who will win where will play out over the next decade.

Lockheed Martin has shifted its small satellite launch plans from mainland Northern Scotland to a site in the Shetland Islands.

Listen in as CEO Francisco Gomes Neto gives his side of Embraer’s breakup with Boeing, what he thinks of finding new partners, and how he plans to steer the Brazilian aircraft company through the COVID-19 storm.

Stratospheric cell mast; Heaviside favors elegance; Pipistrel picks Honeywell; Volansi flies vaccines; Iris enables BVLOS.

Ask the Editors: Three former NASA administrators agree the U.S. space program needs to use nuclear propulsion.

NASA recently conducted certification baseline reviews of the three U.S. companies vying to make landers that will transport astronauts to the Moon by 2024—Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX.

How can the Aviation and Aerospace industry stay resilient and ready to meet increases while facing its bleakest forecast in history? Listen in as

Plans for major technology demonstrators to shape next generation of single-aisle airliner firming up in Europe and U.S.

Transonic Truss Braced Wing, electrified propulsion small-core turbofans and high-rate composites top NASA’s priorities

Under a flat budget, the Pentagon should increase competition, invest in soft power, reinvent conops and tap digital technologies.

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