A futuristic cabin design that looks like a home from home has just bagged an award for excellence in aircraft interior innovation. At a special ceremony in Hamburg, Germany, on Tuesday night, the Crystal Cabin Award for best cabin concept went to Teague and NORDAM for their “Elevate” design. Check out the winning entry in Read more
SpaceX chief Elon Musk said its next-generation Starship rocket will be ready for its first orbital test flight in July. Musk tweeted the news shortly after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released a long-awaited environmental assessment that said SpaceX could launch Starship flights from its Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, so long as it Read more
Almost a decade after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos revealed the company’s grand plan for drone delivery, it has yet to establish a regular service using the flying machines. While the company has invested huge amounts of money in the initiative and assembled teams to design, build, and refine its delivery drone, various challenges mean the Read more
While the Apple rumor mill has recently been focusing on the company’s reported mixed reality headset, Apple engineers are also believed to be working on a pair of high-tech glasses featuring augmented reality (AR) technology. The tech giant has remained characteristically tight-lipped on the matter, though a new report from 9to5Mac suggests that it’s aiming Read more
The team behind NASA’s plucky Ingenuity helicopter has collected another award for the aircraft’s groundbreaking achievements on Mars. The helicopter hovered into the history books in April 2021 when it became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on another planet. In recognition of its success, the National Aeronautic Association presented NASA’s team at Read more
SpaceX may finally be given permission on Monday to conduct the first orbital launch of its next-generation Starship rocket that could one day launch astronauts to Mars. The private space company led by Elon Musk is waiting on a decision from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has spent months assessing the suitability of SpaceX’s Read more
If time is of the essence, then the idea of traveling to a future vacation spot aboard Venus Aerospace’s hypersonic plane may appeal. The Houston, Texas-based company this week shared renderings of a hypersonic passenger plane called Stargazer that it’s aiming to build for commercial use. You can check out the design in the video Read more
Just days after Elon Musk threatened to walk away from his offer to acquire Twitter, the microblogging company has reportedly acted to try to save the deal by offering to hand over a huge trove of data linked to the platform. Earlier this week, a lawyer for Musk contacted Twitter to say that unless it Read more
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California has taken delivery of a major piece of the Europa Clipper spacecraft ahead of its highly anticipated mission to Jupiter’s icy Europa moon in 2024. JPL this week shared a time-lapse video (below) showing the main body of the Europa Clipper arriving at its facility from Johns Read more
You may know Volocopter for its extraordinary 18-rotor electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft, but the German company has also been working on several other designs suitable for different kinds of flights. One of these is the VoloConnect, an eVTOL fixed-wing aircraft capable of carrying four passengers on journeys of up to 60 miles at speeds of Read more
