Commercial Aerospace

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An airplane taking off from a commercial runway
Sept. 18, 2025
Summary points FAA issues RFI for new cost-effective runway safety lighting systems. The agency says current Runway Status Lights are effective but costly and disruptive to install...
Boeing
On-orbit render of a Millennium-built small satellite flying Spectrolab solar cells.
Sept. 11, 2025
Boeing says its new additive-manufactured solar array panels can cut build times by up to six months, enabling faster deployment of small and large satellite constellations.
NASA/Dave Ryan
An artist’s rendering of the Polylingual Experimental Terminal (PExT) payload operating in low Earth orbit. PExT is NASA’s first flight demonstration of a wideband polylingual terminal designed to operate across both government and commercial satellite networks. NASA/Dave Ryan image.
Sept. 11, 2025
With this new technology, missions could "roam" seamlessly between government and commercial networks for the first time, just as cell phones jump between networks on Earth without...
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A photo of a JetBlue tail end on an aircraft.
Sept. 10, 2025
JetBlue will begin introducing Project Kuiper’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite technology on part of its fleet in 2027.
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Row of EU Flags in front of the European Union Commission building in Brussels.
Sept. 10, 2025
Collins Aerospace will also design an advanced propeller to reduce noise and increase efficiency.
NASA
Technicians install and adjust the rotors on the full-scale test model representing half of the Dragonfly lander in the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel facility at NASA’s Langley Research Center. During a month-long testing campaign, the team was able to evaluate rotor system performance in Titan-like conditions. NASA photo.
Sept. 10, 2025
APL and NASA engineers are wrapping up a monthlong campaign to confirm the performance of Dragonfly’s rotors in Titan-like conditions at the NASA Langley Research Center’s Transonic...