The 10-min. suborbital spaceflight on July 20 marks the first time a crewed spacecraft made a debut flight without test pilots, test engineers or professional astronauts aboard.

Rocket Lab has modified the design and manufacture of the igniter for the Rutherford engine after a fault in this system was identified as the root cause of the company’s Electron launch vehicle failure on May 15.

South African fan-in-wing business jet is first subject of Callen-Lenz flight control system project.

An automatic-takeoff-and-landing capability is scheduled to be released to the operational fleet of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. MQ-9 Reapers owned by the U.S. Air Force next year. 

Universal Hydrogen signs deals with first customers for hydrogen-electric propulsion retrofit.

U.S. Army and Navy officials are planning the first round of upgrades for a joint hypersonic missile program.

Hard on the heels of being appointed chief executive of delivery-drone developer Volansi, former assistant U.S. Air Force Secretary Will Roper has been named to the board of electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft developer Beta Technologies.

Airlines around the world have rapidly adapted their operations to perform more cargo flights, with Europe this week the focus of industry efforts to…