Aerospace Research

Now Optionally Piloted Aircraft

Aurora Flight Sciences has started flight testing and Optionally Piloted Aircraft. Aurora has experience in aeronautical engineering, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), advanced payload engineering, and a previous Optionally Piloted Aircraft (OPA) prototype. Aurora combined all this together to is design Centaur OPA. Centaur is based on Diamond 42M general aviation aircraft. The combination of advanced [...]



Aerojet Awarded Contract for Research and Technology in Aerospace Propulsion by NASA

Aerojet, announced that NASA Glenn Research Center has awarded the company a five-year Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide NASA with its space propulsion system technologies, including cryogenic and electric propulsion for spacecraft. Aerojet is one of five companies to be awarded a contract – potentially worth up to $50 million – to support NASA’s [...]



MTU Completes First Low-Pressure Turbine for PW1524G Engine

MTU Aero Engines accomplished another major milestone contributing to the geared turbofan technology of Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower PW1524G engine for the Bombardier CSeries aircraft. The first high-speed low-pressure turbine has been completed in Munich. In a last bolt ceremony held today, MTU Chief Executive Officer Egon Behle, MTU Chief Operating Officer Dr. Rainer Martens [...]



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