Avianca, part of the airline group AviancaTaca Holdings, has signed $500m order for four Airbus A330-200 freighter aircraft, which will be operated by its cargo subsidiary Tampa.
The BSAT-3c / JCSAT-110R broadcasting satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin for the Broadcasting Satellite System (B-SAT) and SKY Perfect JSAT, is now ready for service following on-orbit deployment.
Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies company, has secured an engine management contract from Cargolux Airlines to provide on-wing engine health monitoring.
SpaceX has sought permission from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to test an experimental reusable launch vehicle (RLV) at its McGregor test site in Texas, US.
Cessna Aircraft Company has launched a $4.195m Citation M2 light business jet that can carry two crew and up to six passengers at a maximum cruise speed of 400ktas.
Aircraft leasing group Avolon has agreed to lease nine aircraft to Ryanair and AirAsia for $740m - five Boeing 737-800s to Ryanair and four Airbus A320s to AirAsia.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has received the first of Boeing's long-delayed 787s Dreamliner aircraft from its plant in Everett, Washington, US.
Japan has launched a new information-gathering satellite (IGS), called Optical-4, on H-2A (H-IIA) launch vehicle from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Centre.
Russia is planning to launch the Kondor, its first Earth remote sensing satellite, in January 2012.
Arianespace has launched two communications satellites, Arabsat 5C for the operator Arabsat and SES-2 for the operator SES, on an Ariane 5 ECA rocket.
