Commercial Aerospace

Altair image.
Altair image.
Uncrewed

Altair partners with Moya Aero to advance uncrewed electric cargo aircraft

Nov. 14, 2024
Through Altair’s platform, Moya Aero aims to improve design efficiency, reduce development time, and lower prototyping and testing costs.
This fall, Electra announced the successful flight demonstrations of its hybrid-electric Ultra Short prototype for military stakeholders. The demonstrations, held at Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico and at Felker Army Airfield at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia, showcased the aircraft’s dual-use capabilities for logistics operations in austere environments. Electra photo.
Commercial Aerospace

NASA taps Electra to design electric commercial aircraft of the future

Nov. 14, 2024
Space agency is backing the development of a new generation of aircraft in order to help decarbonize the aviation industry, Jack Daleo writes for Flying.
The Silvius StreamCaster LITE 5200 (SL5200) MANET communications module links several unmanned vehicles
Communications

MANET radio module for communications networking among several uncrewed vehicles introduced by Silvius

Nov. 14, 2024
The Silvius MN-MIMO waveform can link hundreds of nodes in any environment, and enables operators to connect several different unmanned vehicles.
ID 12987989 © Jakub Jirsak | Dreamstime.com
ID 12987989 © Jakub Jirsak | Dreamstime.com
Commercial Aerospace

FAA seeks industry input to upgrade aging airport radar systems

Nov. 13, 2024
Industry feedback is sought on acquisition strategies, including a potential shift to radar data as a service. Under the service model, the FAA would obtain data feeds from private...
The Anduril Pulsar is an AI-enabled family of software-defined electromagnetic warfare systems for counter-UAV missions.
Uncrewed

Marines pick two companies for counter-UAV electromagnetic warfare systems to defeat enemy uncrewed aircraft

Nov. 13, 2024
Marines will pay the companies $15.5 million up-front, and will pay each company for subsequent delivery orders as other funding becomes available.