Denise Donnell, the first woman to command the New York Air National Guard, was promoted to the two-star rank of major general at Stratton Air National Guard Base. Donnell was the first woman to command one of the New York Air National Guard’s five flying wings and is one of only five women to attainRead More

When Adefunke Adeyemi walks into the room, you can immediately feel there is a force of nature at work. She has a disarming smile, a firm handshake, and a clear sense of purpose. The new secretary-general of AFCAC is on a mission. This can only be good news for the civil aviation industry across theRead More

Raytheon Technologies has successfully completed its first engine run of the company’s regional hybrid-electric flight demonstrator, marking a key milestone towards flight testing, targeted to begin in 2024. The propulsion system’s initial run took place at Pratt & Whitney’s innovation facility in Longueuil, Quebec and performed as expected. The system fully integrates a 1 MWRead More

Emirates has noted a 154% increase in vegan meals year on year as Veganuary kicks off for 2023. Currently Emirates offers more than 180 recipes catering to vegan passengers or those looking for a healthy meal onboard, and has been serving vegan meals since the 1990’s. Initially, vegan requirements were focused on specific routes suchRead More

Northrop Grumman has completed ground-based tests to demonstrate critical technology required for a 2025 demonstration of space-based solar power. “As far as the technologies go, we’re very confident in our design and we’ve proven it out,” Tara Theret, Northrop Grumman’s Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research (SSPIDR) program director, told SpaceNews. “Now, it’s justRead More

The US Space Systems Command recently launched a cubesat intended to demonstrate commercial weather imaging technologies for military use. The Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) Weather Systems (EWS) demonstration launched on the SpaceX Transporter-6 rideshare that deployed more than 110 small satellites. Over a planned one-year demonstration, the Space Force wants to assess the capabilities of an imagingRead More

Raytheon Intelligence & Space announced that it has selected a Lockheed Martin bus to build a missile-tracking satellite for the US Space Force. The US Space Systems Command selected two satellite designs — one by Raytheon and the other by Millennium Space Systems — for a planned constellation of sensors in medium Earth orbit (MEO)Read More

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems won a contract from Advanced Space to build a satellite that the Air Force Research Laboratory plans to launch to deep space in 2025. General Atomics, based in San Diego, California, announced that it will produce an ESPA-class satellite bus, integrate and test payloads for Advanced Space, the prime contractor forRead More