September 2020 U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $156.1 million, according to the U.S. Cutting Tool Institute (USCTI) and AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology. This total, as reported by companies participating in the Cutting Tool Market Report collaboration, was up 14.7% from August’s $136.1 million and down 20.5% when compared with the $196.3 million reported for September […]
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Steve Dickson signed an order that paves the way for Boeing 737 MAX jetliners to return to commercial service. Dickson’s action followed a comprehensive and methodical safety review process that took 20 months to complete. During that time, FAA employees worked to identify and address the safety issues that played […]
Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of Raytheon Technologies (RTX), has a collaboration agreement with Boom Supersonic to advance nacelle technology on Boom’s forthcoming flagship supersonic airliner, Overture. Collins Aerospace engineers will work in concert with Boom to develop inlet, nacelle, and exhaust system technologies that enable fuel-burn reduction and cutting-edge acoustics for cleaner and quieter […]
Aircraft electrical systems provider Safran Electrical & Power has been signed to equip the Bye Aerospace eFlyer 2 and eFlyer 4 all-electric aircraft with ENGINeUS electric smart motors. Bye Aerospace is FAA-certifying the two-seat, all-electric eFlyer 2 for the professional flight training mission and the four-seat eFlyer 4 for air-taxi and advanced training uses. All […]
An international crew of astronauts is en route to the International Space Station (ISS) following a successful launch on the first NASA-certified commercial human spacecraft system. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission lifted off at 7:27 p.m. EST Sunday from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled […]
Apollo Fusion Inc. has been selected as the electric propulsion system for Spaceflight Inc.’s Sherpa-LTE. The Sherpa-LTE is a high specific impulse (Isp), xenon propellant, electric propulsion orbital transfer vehicle (OTV). It builds on Spaceflight’s Sherpa-NG program by incorporating Apollo Constellation Engine (ACE) – a low thrust, high efficiency, radiation hardened Hall thruster propulsion system […]
Airbus officials have signed a contract to deliver 38 new Eurofighter aircraft to the German Air Force in a deal estimated to be worth $6.35 billion. This makes Germany the largest ordering nation in Europe’s biggest defense program, which involves the United Kingdom, Spain, and Italy alongside Germany. The Eurofighter secures more than 100,000 jobs […]
NASA has selected 17 U.S. companies for 20 partnerships to mature industry-developed space technologies for the moon and beyond. The NASA and industry teams will design a 3D printing system for NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program, test a simple method for removing dust from planetary solar arrays, mature a first-stage rocket recovery system for a […]
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