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, 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 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 [...]