Category Archives: Break Through

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a contract worth up to $559 million over five years to operate, maintain and perform testing at the Little Mountain Test Facility at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. The state-of-the-art site is designed to test functionality of the nation’s current and future intercontinental ballistic missile force, nuclear modernization programsRead More

A team of Australian scientists will help NASA grow plants on the moon on the Artemis III mission. A core team of scientists from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space (P4S) is assisting NASA with the critical research needed to grow plants in space. The project, named the Lunar EffectsRead More

The Texas city of Sugar Land aims to be the first base in a network of eVTOL air taxi services in the Greater Houston area under plans announced last week with Wisk Aero. Recently, city officials signed a partnership with the Boeing subsidiary to select a location at Sugar Land Regional Airport for a vertiportRead More

Guardian Mobility has expanded its product line of airborne connectivity terminals, with the G6 and G6-S Certus satcoms now approved on Iridium’s Next satellite network. The terminals operate on the mid-band of the Next system with bi-directional 88 Kbps transmission speed. “We can support applications such as live video, automated flight following, real-time images, healthRead More

Etihad Airways and Air Serbia have entered a strategic bilateral codeshare. Under this partnership, Etihad’s customers gain convenient access to 12 Southeast European destinations through Air Serbia’s Belgrade hub, with nine destinations being new to Etihad’s extended network. The codeshare arrangement simplifies the travel experience for guests, allowing them to make a single booking andRead More

Emirates will ramp up its operations in Australia by upgrading its second daily flight between Dubai and Brisbane to an A380 starting from October 1. The airline will also add a second daily service between Dubai and Perth operated by a Boeing 777-300ER starting from 1 December. From 1 October, Emirates’ second A380 flight EK430Read More

Wizz Air Abu Dhabi has signed an MoU with the UAE Ministry of Energy & Infrastructure to increase awareness on sustainability. The agreement was signed by His Excellency Sharif Al Olama, Undersecretary for Energy and Petroleum Affairs, Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure and Johan Eidhagen, managing director of Wizz Air Abu Dhabi. The airline andRead More

The Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) has welcomed the outcome of COP28 in Dubai after it called to ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels by 2050. Haldane Dodd, ATAG’s executive director, said: “This is in line with our expectations of the aviation energy transition. Although the COP28 language could be stronger, it does send a clearRead More

The U.S. Space Force recently officially activated its first component dedicated to both Europe and Africa. The new unit, known as U.S. Space Forces Europe and Africa, will support U.S. European Command (EUCOM) and U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). Headquartered at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, the Space Force component will be led by U.S. SpaceRead More

Helicity Space, a California startup developing fusion engines for spaceflight, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round announced recently. Helicity attracted funding from Airbus Ventures, TRE Ventures, Voyager Space Holdings, E2MC Space, Urania Ventures and Gaingels. “We’re happy to be backed by long-term strategic partners of substance,” Helicity co-founder Stephane Lintner told SpaceNews.Read More