Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
The concept pairs a certified, in-production freighter with Merlin’s autonomy software, aiming to fill a gap between small tactical delivery drones and full-size military airlifters. TEXTRON AND MERLIN INTRODUCE CESSNA SKYCOURIER UX CONCEPT AIRCRAFT Textron Aviation and Merlin, Inc. introduced a concept Cessna SkyCourier UX aircraft on 14 September at the Air, Space & […]
Total Cargo Management provider TCE has argued that airlines entering new cargo markets need integrated handling, supplier and customer-service capability in place before they start selling capacity, not after. TCE ARGUES NEW CARGO MARKETS DEMAND OPERATIONAL READINESS, NOT JUST SALES TCE, a Total Cargo Management (TCM) provider to airline cargo operations, has argued that
President Emmanuel Macron announced French government support for Dassault Aviation’s VORTEX programme at the International Space Summit in Paris, formalising a consortium that has been assembling since May and now spans five countries. FRANCE BACKS DASSAULT’S VORTEX REUSABLE SPACEPLANE PROJECT Dassault Aviation welcomed France’s decision to support its VORTEX spaceplane project, announced by French
General Atomics has revealed a clean-sheet uncrewed aircraft pitched at the US Air Force’s Massed Modular Aircraft competition, designed to be fielded in large numbers where older, more expensive systems would be too costly to risk. GA-ASI UNVEILS WILDFIRE UAS FOR MILITARY, CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL ROLES General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) unveiled Wildfire
Joby Aviation has begun a week of real-world electric air taxi flights across the Dallas-Fort Worth region, including direct routes into DFW International Airport, as Texas launches its eVTOL Integration Pilot Program. JOBY LAUNCHES FIRST EIPP FLIGHTS WITH DALLAS-FORT WORTH CAMPAIGN Joby Aviation began a week-long flight campaign across the Dallas-Fort Worth region on
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Two new remote sensing satellite groups reached orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, a spaceport that has anchored China’s space programme since 1958 and marked its own launch on a Long March rocket family now flying roughly one mission a week. CHINA LAUNCHES YAOGAN-53 AND YAOGAN-56 GROUPS ON LONG MARCH’S 666TH FLIGHT China
America’s Consortium for Electric Skyways plans to build interoperable charging infrastructure across the Texas Triangle to support the state’s federally backed eVTOL Integration Pilot Program. ACES CONSORTIUM TO BUILD AIR TAXI CHARGING NETWORK ACROSS TEXAS America’s Consortium for Electric Skyways (ACES), launched by Archer Aviation, BETA Technologies and Macquarie Capital, has announced plans to
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Romania’s national carrier has welcomed its first 737-8, leased from CDB Aviation, as it begins renewing a single-aisle fleet that currently comprises four 737 Next-Generation jets. TAROM WELCOMES FIRST BOEING 737 MAX, NAMED AFTER MIRCEA LUCESCU Boeing, TAROM and CDB Aviation marked the delivery of TAROM’s first 737-8, the first Boeing 737 MAX to
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France has awarded the CASSIOPÉE contract to Airbus Defence and Space and co-contractor Unseenlabs, renewing the country’s space-based signal intelligence capability ahead of the CERES constellation’s retirement by 2032. AIRBUS AND UNSEENLABS TO RENEW FRANCE’S SPACE-BASED SIGINT CAPABILITY On the sidelines of the International Space Summit in Paris, Catherine Vautrin, France’s Minister for the
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The 12th edition of Commercial UAV Expo pulled in its largest crowd yet, with 3,800 professionals converging on Las Vegas just as new FAA rulemaking, an FCC import restriction and fresh tariffs reshape the US commercial drone market. RECORD TURNOUT AT COMMERCIAL UAV EXPO AS US DRONE RULES SHIFT Commercial UAV Expo drew 3,800
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