October’s top news stories
TransDigm Group agreed to acquire aerospace-parts maker Esterline Technologies for around $4bn, and a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft operated by Indonesia’s Lion Air crashed into the sea off the...
TransDigm Group agreed to acquire aerospace-parts maker Esterline Technologies for around $4bn, and a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft operated by Indonesia’s Lion Air crashed into the sea off the...
Airbus unveiled plans for the safe and efficient integration of drones or autonomous aircraft into airspace, and ST Engineering's US subsidiary signed an agreement to buy General Electric’s nacelle manufacturing...
Ducommun has secured an over $200m long term contract from an unnamed engine original equipment manufacturer to build nacelle components, and a team of Chinese researchers is developing a spacecraft...
Air Lease (ALC) is to purchase up to 78 Boeing aircraft in a $9.6bn deal at current list prices, and Facebook is reportedly planning to launch a satellite into space...
FedEx Express has placed an order with Boeing to purchase 24 freighter aircraft worth $6.6bn at list prices, and researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has upgraded the...
Lufthansa’s supervisory board has approved a €2.1bn order for the purchase of up to 16 additional aircraft, and scientists from the UK’s University of Glasgow and Ukraine’s OlesHonchar Dnipro National University...
Boeing finalised a $6.24bn order with Indonesia’s Lion Air Group for 50 737 MAX 10 aircraft, and China’s Tiangong-1 space station made a self-destructive re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere over...
Turkish Airlines finalised an order with Boeing for the purchase of 25 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft for an undisclosed sum, and Airbus planned to test a harpoon to trap defunct satellites...
ISRO has launched 31 satellites onboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, and Nasa has tested a new technology that...
Airbus to sell 430 A320neo aircraft to Indigo Partners, while new research has revealed that dark features found on the surface of Mars might not indicate the subsurface flowing of...
