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Rolls-Royce reaches testing milestone on Advance2 and Pearl 10X

The Rolls-Royce Pearl 10X engine development programme is making good progress and has successfully cumulated more than 1,000 testing hours, both on t...

April order uplift sees aerospace recovery continue

Global aircraft orders for April have seen a continuation of the strong order books seen at the start of the year and a continuation of recovery in ma...

RAF and Royal Navy to provide support to Qatar World Cup 2022

The UK has announced its commitment to helping Qatar deliver a safe and secure FIFA World Cup 2022. Image copyright Shutterstock The announcemen...

Serco acquires Sapienza

Serco Group plc has entered into an agreement to acquire Sapienza Group, from TP Group plc, to expand its offering to the European space sector. Ima...

Menzies Aviation renews Air Canada contract at Heathrow

Menzies Aviation today announced it has renewed a significant ground services contract with Air Canada at Heathrow Airport (LHR) and won new business ...

UK Government to host AFF22 onboard HMS Prince of Wales in New York

On 28th-29th September, the UK Government will host the Atlantic Future Forum (AFF22) on the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales in New York, bringin...

Stay ahead of the airplane

Neil Ballinger, head of EMEA at EU Automation, looks at ways of stepping up to the challenges currently facing aerospace supply chains. When taught ho...

Airbus launches UK ZEDC

Airbus is strengthening its presence in the UK with the launch of a Zero Emission Development Centre (ZEDC) for hydrogen technologies, to be based in ...

Inmarsat and Honeywell launch SwiftJet

Inmarsat and Honeywell have launched SwiftJet, their latest inflight connectivity service for the business aviation industry, set to enter commercial ...

Darktrace AI to defend Bluebird Group against rising cyber threats

Cambridge based Darktrace's AI has been selected by multi-award-winning Indonesian transport giant, Bluebird Group, to autonomously interrupt cyber-at...

MoD Director of Defence Innovation Clare Cameron joins Ploughshare board

Ploughshare has announced the appointment of defence innovation leader Clare Cameron to its board. Image courtesy Ploughshare / Polymedia Limited&nb...

COMSAT and Satcom Direct Communications form SD Government

Satcom Direct has ramped up its support for military and government customers by unifying COMSAT and SD Communications, under a new brand, SD Governme...

CGI to provide ICT to support MoD's PICASSO programme

CGI has been selected by UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) - Defence Digital to provide an Intelligent Customer Team (ICT) to support the UK PICASSO progra...

Omnidea funded by SPRINT to develop CubeSats plasma thruster

Omnidea Ltd - the UK arm of Omnidea Group - has signed up to the national SPRINT (SPace Research and Innovation Network for Technology) business suppo...