Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
Nearly 17,000 active satellites now circle the Earth, up almost a third on last year, according to the latest Look Up x Le Point Space Barometer, published ahead of this week’s International Space Summit in Paris. SATELLITE POPULATION GROWS BY NEARLY A THIRD IN A YEAR As WAN reported on 7 September, the International […]
Chapman Freeborn says clients increasingly book private charter as a logistics tool rather than a status symbol, valuing control over arrival times and access to regional airports over comfort alone. TIME, NOT LUXURY, NOW DRIVES PRIVATE CHARTER DECISIONS According to the European Business Aviation Association, business aviation serves more than 1,500 airports across Europe,
CHAPMAN FREEBORN: PRIVATE CHARTER CLIENTS ARE NOW BUYING BACK TIME, NOT LUXURYRead More »
German launch company Isar Aerospace delivered satellites to orbit from its Andøya launch site in Norway on 5 September, becoming the first commercial space company from Europe to do so and giving the continent what its chief executive called sovereign access to space. SECOND FLIGHT REACHES ORBIT FROM CONTINENTAL EUROPE Isar Aerospace became the
ISAR AEROSPACE BECOMES FIRST EUROPEAN COMPANY TO REACH ORBIT, ON ONLY ITS SECOND FLIGHTRead More »
A Royal New Zealand Air Force NH90, flown from a fleet of just eight aircraft, has become the first of its type anywhere to reach 3,000 flight hours, a milestone Airbus attributes to operational intensity rather than fleet size. A SMALL FLEET SETS A GLOBAL BENCHMARK On Wednesday 26 August 2026, an NH90 Tactical
RNZAF NH90 BECOMES FIRST IN THE WORLD TO PASS 3,000 FLIGHT HOURSRead More »
European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher will use the International Space Summit in Paris on 9 and 10 September to ask European leaders how far they want to go in shaping the next era of space exploration, ahead of a funding decision in Rome in December. PARIS SUMMIT SETS UP A DECEMBER FUNDING DECISION
ESA HEAD TO PRESS EUROPE’S LEADERS ON SPACE AMBITION AT PARIS SUMMITRead More »
Emirates says its newly delivered Airbus A350s will carry the first electrically powered Premium Economy seat with a full-height privacy divider between every pair, debuting on daily services to Entebbe, Tunis and Cape Town. AFRICAN ROUTES AMONG THE FIRST TO GET THE NEW CABIN Emirates has introduced a new electrically powered Premium Economy seat
EMIRATES INTRODUCES ELECTRIC PREMIUM ECONOMY SEAT, DEBUTING ON THREE AFRICAN ROUTESRead More »
ANA Holdings has signed for eight additional Embraer E190-E2 aircraft, formalising an expansion first announced in July and taking the Japanese group’s firm E2 order to 23 aircraft, with five options still open. ANA DEEPENS ITS E190-E2 COMMITMENT AS JAPANESE REGIONAL FLEET GROWS Embraer and ANA Holdings Inc. have signed an agreement for eight
ANA HOLDINGS FIRMS UP ORDER FOR EIGHT MORE EMBRAER E190-E2S, LIFTING TOTAL TO 23Read More »
Harris Aerial, Skyline Nav AI and UtopiaCompression took the show’s annual pitch competition on day one of Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas, while the opening keynote’s State of the Industry Survey found most operators still reliant on foreign-made hardware and largely unprepared for the FAA’s incoming Part 108 beyond-visual-line-of-sight rule. PITCH THE PRESS WINNERS
COMMERCIAL UAV EXPO OPENS WITH PITCH THE PRESS WINS AND A STARK PART 108 READINESS GAPRead More »
The Long Beach start-up has secured a senior secured term loan of up to $100 million, led by Pinegrove Credit Partners and Silicon Valley Bank, to fund tooling and its North Carolina production buildout as the Z4 programme moves toward a full-scale demonstrator flight. PRIVATE FINANCING BUILDS ON PUBLIC BACKING FOR THE ALL-WING PROGRAMME
JETZERO CLOSES $100 MILLION LOAN FACILITY TO ADVANCE Z4 BLENDED-WING JETRead More »
Azul Linhas Aéreas has taken delivery of Embraer’s 2,000th E-Jet, an E195-E2 that is also the airline’s 50th E2, as the two-decade-old programme consolidates its position among the world’s three largest commercial jet families. A MILESTONE TWO DECADES IN THE MAKING Embraer has delivered the 2,000th aircraft in its E-Jets family, an E195-E2 handed
EMBRAER DELIVERS 2,000TH E-JET AS AZUL TAKES MILESTONE E195-E2Read More »
