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Starship wasn’t quite ready to fly today (July 16).SpaceX tried to launch the Starship megarocket on its 13th test flight today but couldn’t quite pull it…

Twinjet for Qantas’s ‘Project Sunrise’ to fly 22h sortie to Australia. Airbus is preparing to conduct an ultra-long test flight with its newly-developed A350-1000ULR in around…

Qantas’ Project Sunrise has been one of the aviation industry’s closely watched initiatives. It is designed to connect Australia’s East Coast with cities such as London…

Toyota-based manufacturer flies its SD-05 aircraft twice in Yamaguchi Prefecture to test the tourism use case for its planned 2028 commercial launch. SkyDrive Inc. completed a…

A pilot decided to skywrite the words “I’m Bored” in the skies above Liverpool, United Kingdom, during a two-hour test flight. The aircraft, which had departed…

Japan’s space agency has flown and landed an experimental rocket built to demonstrate the technology required for a reusable rocket. The Reusable Vehicle eXperiment (RV-X), developed by…

Edgewing has been awarded a £4.6 billion (US$6.1 billion) contract to move the UK, Italy and Japan’s Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) into its next major…

A Falcon 9 rocket stands ready for launch in this file photo. Image: SpaceX. Two semiconductor fabrication test beds will hitch a sub-orbital ride on the…

Propulsion specialist plans latest tests of widebody engine later this year, with smaller 30,000lbf-thrust variant to arrive in 2028. Rolls-Royce has begun building up its widebody-sized…

Australia’s Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (AMCRC) has unveiled its STARTER Project Funding Program, a AU$3.25 million (approx. US$2.25 million) initiative announced in Melbourne on 1…