
Aerospace News & Articles - IEEE Spectrum
Dec 12, 2025 · The latest developments in aviation, satellites, astrophysics, space flight, and space exploration
Electric Aircraft Motor Gets Superconducting Upgrade - IEEE Spectrum
Jun 26, 2025 · High-temperature superconductors are transforming electric aircraft motors from companies like Hinetics, offering unprecedented power density.
Helium Giants Return: LTA Research Airship Over SF Bay - IEEE Spectrum
May 27, 2025 · The age of airships is reborn! LTA Research's Pathfinder 1, a 124-meter helium giant, soared over San Francisco Bay, marking a new era in sustainable aviation. Funded by Sergey Brin, …
Fly the Hybrid Skies - IEEE Spectrum
Nov 30, 2023 · For this test series, engineers at GE Aerospace assembled two sets of a hybrid-electric system, representing the right- and left-engine sides of an airplane, and simulated the electrical loads ...
Why Jet Engines Could Power the AI Data Centers Boom - IEEE Spectrum
Oct 20, 2025 · Repurposed aircraft engines are powering AI data centers amid delays for grid hookups. They're an efficient and innovative solution to bridging the power gap.
MEMS In Space - IEEE Spectrum
Jul 2, 2001 · A MEMS-based digital thruster for attitude control is under development by Aerospace, TRW Inc. (headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio), and the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena.
The World’s Largest 3D Metal Printer Is Churning Out Rockets
Oct 25, 2019 · In traditional aerospace manufacturing, a design change can require almost a year of retooling and adjustments. Because hardware changes take so long, the avionics department is …
The Truth About Terahertz - IEEE Spectrum
Aug 17, 2012 · UPDATE 5 MARCH 2024: In Terahertz technology, everything old is news again. “Not that much has changed in the past 10 or 15 years,” says Peter H. Siegel. Siegel, an IEEE Life …
How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer
Apr 18, 2019 · This is part of the wreckage of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, a Boeing 737 Max airliner that crashed on 11 March in Bishoftu, Ethiopia, killing all 157 passengers and crew.
Bertrand Piccard's Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Aircraft - IEEE Spectrum
May 25, 2025 · Bertrand Piccard, a modern explorer, aims to make history again by flying a green-hydrogen fuel-cell aircraft around the world nonstop by 2028. Known for his environmental missions, …