Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space have awarded a contract to Aerojet Rocketdyne to develop an electronic controller for the XR-5 Hall Thruster for the Neosat mission.
Southwest Airlines has selected McMurdo's emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) for its fleet of 636 Boeing 737 aircrafts.
US-based technical services company VSE has completed its acquisition of Killick Aerospace's four business units.
Safran has inaugurated a research and technology centre in Saclay, Paris, France, to focus on electric aircraft, new aircraft propulsion architectures and information and communications technologies.
Piper Aircraft has launched the M-Class single-engine Meridian M500 business aircraft.
Aviation Industry Corporation of China's AVIC Aircraft has awarded a contract to Parker Aerospace to provide flight control actuation and a hydraulic system for the new MA700 regional aircraft.
A consortium of aviation manufacturers, along with other industry companies, is working to develop non-halon fire extinguishing solutions for use in aviation engines and auxiliary power unit fire zones.
Orbital Sciences has received approval from its shareholders to proceed with its planned $5bn merger with Alliant Techsystems' (ATK) Aerospace and Defense operations.
Japan Airlines (JAL) has finalised a deal with Mitsubishi Aircraft to purchase 32 Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) aircrafts.
CFM International has secured a $200m contract to provide CFM56-5B engines for BOC Aviation's ten new Airbus A320ceo aircraft.
