The first of two aircraft fitted with a modular hybrid-electric propulsion system developed under a European research program is expected to fly in September.
Even as it begins deliveries of its first certified electric aircraft, Slovenia’s Pipistrel has begun accepting orders for a family of unmanned cargo aircraft.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral AFS on Aug. 30, sending an Argentine remote sensing satellite into a polar orbit, a flightpath from Florida that had not been used since 1969.
A new NASA research project seeks a dramatic 400-600% improvement in manufacturing rates for composite airframe structures for the next U.S.-built single-aisle commercial aircraft.