Southwest Airlines has selected iAero Thrust to provide the airline with CFM56 engine MRO services. The three-year agreement includes on-demand hospital repair, on-wing support, and test services for the Southwest’s fleet of Boeing 737-700NG aircraft. “We are honored to be chosen by Southwest Airlines to support their fleet engine maintenance programs and overall continued growth,”Read More

Canadian approved maintenance organization KF Aerospace has begun using 8tree’s ‘dentCHECK’ at its Kelowna, British Columbia, headquarters. The wireless 3D scanner tool with integrated AR delivers real-time ‘go/ no-go’ answers at the push of a button, which 8tree said reduces damage-mapping and reporting times compared to traditional manual methods that use depth-gauges and straight-edges. KF’sRead More

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a US government spy satellite into orbit recently from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The payload, designated NROL-87, was the National Reconnaissance Office’s first space mission of the year and the first orbital launch of 2022 from the Western Range. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex, headingRead More

Rocket Lab will expand facilities in Colorado it obtained from a corporate acquisition last year as the company gears up for the first launch in a ‘crazy busy’ year. Rocket Lab announced recently that will open a new ‘space systems complex’ in Littleton, Colorado, near the current offices of Advanced Solutions, Inc. (ASI), a companyRead More

Atlantic Aviation, one of the leading networks of fixed-based operators (FBO) in North America, announced the recent appointment of Paula Sacks as Chief Human Resources Officer. In this newly created role at Atlantic Aviation, she is responsible for talent recruitment and retention, diversity, and inclusion efforts in strong partnership with the leaders of the businessRead More

It took her 155 days, but 19-year-old Zara Rutherford accomplished her goal: to become the youngest woman to fly solo around the world. Last week, her plane touched down in Kortrijk, Belgium, completing a globe-trotting trip that spanned five continents and 28,000 nautical miles, report Taylor Haney and Scott Neuman for NPR. “I made it,”Read More

A startup led by a former acting administrator of NASA has announced plans to develop platforms serviced by robotic vehicles in cislunar space to support a range of applications. Maryland-based Quantum Space announced recently that it’s starting work on a spacecraft platform that would initially operate at the Earth-moon L-1 Lagrange point and host variousRead More

The UAE-Bahraini Light-1 CubeSat was successfully launched into orbit from the International Space Station, in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Light-1 CubeSat is a collaboration initiative of the UAE Space Agency, Bahrain’s National Space Science Agency, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, and New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi. JAXA coordinated theRead More