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SAE Course Delivers an Introduction to the Latest Aviation Cybersecurity Essentials
As of 2019, the only acceptable mean of compliance (AMC) for U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and European Union Aviation Safety Agency aviation...
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Alakai Technologies Unveils the World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Urban Air Mobility Vehicle
Alakai Technologies Corporation has unveiled a new urban air mobility (UAM) vehicle. “Skai,” Alakai Technology’s electric vertical takeoff...
News Automotive
NASA Opens the International Space Station for Commercial Business
NASA is opening the International Space Station (ISS) for commercial business to accelerate U.S. science and technology innovation and accelerate the development of...
News AR/AI
Raytheon, UTC Merger Will Direct $8B R&D Budget Toward Hypersonics, Cybersecurity, AI, and Next-Gen Connected Aircraft
Almost exactly seven months after United Technologies Corporation (UTC) completed its acquisition of Rockwell Collins (now...
News Imaging
Cepton Technology’s Newest Highspeed Lidar Sensor Can Spot a Tow Hitch on a Vehicle Traveling 50 Miles per Hour
Cepton Technologies, Inc., a San Jose, California-based 3D lidar developer, has added a line scanning lidar (light detection...
News Aerospace
Deloitte Issues Report on Viability of EVTOL UAM Transportation
In a new report, New York City-based consulting and advisory firm, Deloitte Global suggests while that there has been progress in the development of electric vertical take-off and...
News Aerospace
Boeing’s CAV Makes First Outdoor Flight
Boeing has successfully completed the first outdoor flight test of its electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) cargo air vehicle (CAV). The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operated in a safe...
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Sikorsky’s Autonomous Black Hawk Helicopter Takes Flight
Lockheed Martin Corporation subsidiary Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation tested a new full-authority, fly-by-wire flight control technology kit for the first time on a Sikorsky UH-60...
News Unmanned Systems
Vertical Aerospace Is Honeywell’s Latest Partner in the UAM Industry
Honeywell International Inc. and Vertical Aerospace Ltd. have agreed to work together to solve urban air mobility’s (UAM’s) technical, regulatory and business...
News Manned Systems
Boeing Reports on Its Environmental Efforts
In its 2019 Global Environment report, the Boeing Company provides an update on the environmental strategy the company unveiled last year. The strategy identifies 2025 as a target year to...
News Power
Wind River and Airbiquity Partner to Update Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Software Through Cloud-Based, Over-The-Air Technology
Wind River Systems, Inc. is partnering with Airbiquity, Inc. to develop a solution to proactively manage the...
News Manned Systems
Honeywell Debuts Fly-By-Wire System for Urban Air Mobility, Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft
Honeywell (NYSE:HON) engineers in Phoenix have packed the “brains” of an airliner’s flight controls into a “fly-by-wire”...
News Aerospace
OmegA Rocket Sustains Explosion During First Static Test, Northrop Grumman Maintains Test Was a Success
Northrop Grumman Corporation completed the first static or “stationary,” full-scale test of its next-generation OmegA space launch...
News Automotive
Lockheed Martin’s “Non-Operational” Space Fence Detects Indian Anti-Satellite Operations While Still in Test Mode
A breakup field from a recent Indian anti-satellite test was detected by the Lockheed Martin-developed U.S. Air Force...
News Power
Siemens Debuts Capital Load Analyzer Software to Accelerate Certification, Reduce Risk
Mentor, a Siemens business, in Wilsonville, Oregon, is introducing its Capital Load Analyzer software, intended to help simplify aircraft electrical...
News Connectivity
Law Enforcement Agencies Used DroneSense’s UAS-Management Platform to Support Indy 500 Security Operations
During the 2019 Indianapolis 500 IndyCar race, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) pilots from the Speedway Police Department,...
News Manned Systems
NASA Selects Power and Propulsion Module for Upcoming Lunar Gateway
The NASA lunar Gateway – a small lunar-orbit spaces station designed as a communications, science, and short-term habitation outpost – is part of the agency’s...
News Connectivity
United Ups Commitment to Sustainable Aviation Biofuel, Extends Contract with World Energy
United Airlines officials in Chicago have strengthened their commitment to ensuring United is an environmentally conscious carrier by expanding its...
News Unmanned Systems
New University-Led Air Force Center of Excellence Focuses on Securing Autonomous Systems Operating in Contested Environments
A new United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Center of Excellence (COE), led by the...
News Aerospace
BlackBird to Purchase 110 All-Electric Bye Aerospace EFlyer Aircraft
San Francisco-based BlackBird Air Inc., the United States’ largest aviation marketplace, has committed to buying 100 four-seat eFlyer 4 and 10 two-seat eFlyer 2 aircraft...
News Materials
NASA High-Temp Materials, Coatings Enhance Commercial Products
NASA officials are announcing the availability of eight disruptive NASA materials and coatings technologies ready for commercialization.
News Aerospace
Next-Generation Crash Recorders Integral to Aviation Cybersecurity
On the cybersecurity front, EASA has issued a new notice of proposed amendment (NPA) related to an earlier RTCA document, DO-326A, which came out in 2014. Because DO-326A...
News Manned Systems
NASA Budget Amendment to Help Send Americans to Moon by 2024, Then Mars
An amended NASA budget for fiscal year 2020 would add $1.6 billion to a $21 billion initial budget request and fund deep space exploration, science, and technology...
News Propulsion
Jeff Bezos Lays out Blue Origin’s Moon Shot, Debuts Lunar Lander
During a special presentation, Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos announced the company’s vision for the future of space travel and revealed a large, new, reconfigurable lunar...
News Electronics & Computers
DARPA’s Latest Drone Swarm Sprint Focuses on Virtual Environments
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has kicked off the fourth ‘sprint’ for its OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program. Through OFFSET, DARPA...
News Aerospace
NASA Highlights Material and Coating Technology Ready for Commercial Applications
Innovations in materials and coatings have enabled countless NASA missions since the agency’s inception. The research that goes into developing these...
News Connectivity
Aitech Defense Will Provide Data Interface Technology for Boeing’s Unmanned MQ-25 Refueling Platform
Aitech Defense Systems, Inc. (Aitech Defense), a subsidiary of Aitech Group based in of Chatswick, California, will supply key mission...
News Automotive
Apollo Fusion Will Supply NASA JPL with MaSMi Hall Thrusters as Sole Licensed Manufacturer
Apollo Fusion, Inc. (Apollo), headquarter in Mountain View, California, has received an exclusive, worldwide license to the NASA Jet Propulsion...
News Aerospace
Hybrid Air Vehicles, Collins Aerospace, and University of Nottingham to Develop Electric Propulsion for Airlander 10
The United Kingdom (UK) Aerospace Research and Technology Programme has awarded grant funding in excess of £1m ($1.3m) to...
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