Category Archives: Break Through

MintAir, an air mobility startup in South Korea, has partnered with US-based aerospace manufacturer Jaunt Air Mobility to purchase Jaunt Journey electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.   These new generation fully electric rotorcraft are expected to accelerate the development of air taxi services in the country.   Under terms of the LOI, which was announcedRead More

Congress has passed the first NASA authorization bill in more than five years, formally extending operations of the International Space Station and backing NASA’s Artemis exploration effort. The House passed on a 243–187 vote July 28 the “Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act,” a day after the Senate passed the billRead More

The privately funded Polaris Program is planning its first crewed launch on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft in December, a mission that will include the first spacewalk on a private mission. Jared Isaacman, the billionaire who organized the Inspiration4 private astronaut mission that spent three days in orbit in September 2021, announced the Polaris ProgramRead More

The assembly of Sikorsky’s Raider X competitive prototype for the Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program is now 90 percent complete. Sikorsky’s compound coaxial helicopter is a semi-finalist in the FARA competition and is 20 percent larger than the S-97 proof-of-concept vehicle the company first flew in 2015. Sikorsky recently displayed the Raider XRead More

Rolls-Royce is officially announcing the development of turbogenerator technology, which includes a new small engine designed for hybrid-electric applications. The system will be an on-board power source with scalable power offerings and will complement the Rolls-Royce Electrical propulsion portfolio, enabling extended range on sustainable aviation fuels and later as it comes available through hydrogen combustion.Read More

An international team of scientists recently released the largest near-infrared image ever taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, enabling astronomers to map the star-forming regions of the universe and learn how the earliest, most distant galaxies originated. Named 3D-DASH, this high-resolution survey will allow researchers to find rare objects and targets for follow-up observations withRead More

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster NGC 6652. The newly found pulsar received designation PSR J1835−3259B. The study detailing the finding and disclosing fundamental parameters of this object was published in May on the arXiv pre-print server. Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron starsRead More

China plans to set up a constellation around the moon to provide communication and navigation services for future operations on the lunar surface. China will take the lead in demonstrating a small, lunar relay communication and navigation system, Wu Yanhua, deputy director of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), told Chinese media. The first launchRead More

FreeFlight Systems is in the final stages of obtaining FAA Technical Standard Order (TSO) approval for its Terrain series 5G-interference-resistant radar altimeters. The company plans to submit all required paperwork for the TSO in early April, and approval should follow shortly. At the Aircraft Electronics Association convention this week in New Orleans, FreeFlight president TonyRead More

Thommen Aircraft Equipment is expanding its capability to manufacture LCDs to replace older cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays installed in legacy aircraft. The company has provided this service previously but now is expanding CRT-to-LCD upgrades for the ‘broader market’. Switzerland-based Thommen has its own in-house lamination and assembly capabilities, with manufacturing done in an ISO ClassRead More