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by Matthew Beres, Airborne Retrofit & Modernization Analyst, Forecast International. Gogo recently made the largest announced in-flight connectivity deal in China, which also happens to be the first airline deal …
Will the Largest In-Flight Connectivity Deal in China Keep Gogo Dominant? Read MoreBy J. Kasper Oestergaard, European Correspondent. Boeing and Airbus delivered 56 and 46 commercial jets in February 2016, compared to 63 and 46 in the same month last year, respectively. …
Airbus, Boeing February 2016 Deliveries and Orders Disappoint Read More
By J. Kasper Oestergaard, European Correspondent. Boeing and Airbus delivered 49 and 22 commercial jets in January 2016, down from 50 and 36 in January 2015, respectively. While Airbus traditionally …
Airbus, Boeing Report January 2016 Commercial Aircraft Orders and Deliveries Read MoreBy Bill Ostrove, Space Systems Analyst, Forecast International. For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves. The detection was made on September 14, …
NSF’s Gravitational Wave Detection Could Encourage Adoption of $1.4 Billion NGO Mission Read MoreBy Matthew Beres, Airborne Retrofit & Modernization Analyst, Forecast International. These days you couldn’t swing a dead cat in a community college or magnet school without hitting a 3-D printer. …
Steep Angle of Climb for Aerospace 3-D Printing Read MoreBy Bill Ostrove, Space Systems Analyst, Forecast International. After a nearly two-year-long search, in January 2016 NASA announced the winners of its second round of Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contracts. …
Perseverance Pays Off for Sierra Nevada Corp in CRS Win, Putting Company in Strong Position Read MoreBoeing Delivers Record 762 Jets in 2015. Airbus Wins Orders Race. By J. Kasper Oestergaard, European Correspondent. Boeing and Airbus delivered 53 and 79 commercial jets in December 2015, respectively, …
Airbus and Boeing Report December and Full-Year 2015 Commercial Aircraft Orders and Deliveries Read MoreBy Bill Ostrove, Space Systems Analyst, Forecast International. Space Systems Loral (SSL) has been selected to provide a communications satellite to PT Telkom Indonesia (Persero) Tbk. According to a December …
PT Telkom Indonesia Orders $200 Million Communications Satellite from SSL Read MoreBy Bill Ostrove, Space Systems Analyst, Forecast International. A Zenit 2SB launch vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on December 12 carrying the Elektro-L2, a geosynchronous meteorological …
Multiple Issues Lead to Last Zenit Launch Read MoreBy Richard Pettibone, Aerospace & Defense Companies Analyst, Forecast International. United Aircraft Corporation is ever so slowly coming into its own. Following its formation, the firm struggled to combine the …
Russia’s UAC Dreams of Civil, Banks on Military Read More