Aerospace Emerging Technologies

Aug 30, 2021
Modeling decarbonization; Suborbital spaceplane flies; Satellite captures debris; Measuring Arctic methane; Navy VTOL delivery drone.
Aug 27, 2021
NASA stops work on lunar lander a second time after losing bidder files federal lawsuit.
Aug 27, 2021
Aviation regulators should start planning around the danger that aircraft impose on flyers and nonflyers alike through climate change.
Aug 24, 2021
New risks have emerged 20 years after 9/11, while COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized value of touchless, crowd-reducing protocols.
Aug 24, 2021
New satellite constellations seeding the $1 trillion space economy
May 26, 2020
Scotland’s National Health Service (NHS) is to trial deliveries by unmanned air systems to speed up logistics between remote medical centers.
May 22, 2020
China has conducted its first remote tower operation at Xinyuan Nalati Airport (NLT) with a China Express Airlines flight controlled remotely from the Xinjiang Airport Group’s center in Urumqi, 385 km away. 
May 19, 2020
Lufthansa Group is to cooperate with Swiss technology institute ETH Zurich to accelerate the availability of aviation fuel produced using carbon dioxide and water extracted from the atmosphere using concentrated sunlight.
May 13, 2020
The Senate Armed Services Committee recently met to consider a bewildering decision by the FCC to OK the building of a low-power, ground-based network for 5G cellular and Internet of Things data services that opponents say could interfere with GPS receivers.
Apr 29, 2020
Fielding a technology that can expand the use of additive manufacturing in parts production, startup Velo3D has secured $28 million in Series D funding, taking total financing raised so far to $138 million.
Apr 28, 2020
Startup Skyryse is flight testing the software for the first application of its FlightOS automation system as it progresses toward certification of the aircraft-agnostic fly-by-wire (FBW) architecture on its first platform.
Apr 21, 2020
How the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry will fare in the aftermath of the COVID-19 impact on commercial aviation is far from clear. But most…
Apr 11, 2020
A TASS report offers the first timeline for fielding of the new weapon designed to strike maritime and land targets at up to Mach 9.