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Airbus Advances Hybrid-Electric Aircraft Architecture

July 2026 Molly Bakewell Chamberlin

Airbus and partners from across the European Union, United Kingdom and United States are advancing the development of a hybrid-electric, non-propulsive energy architecture for the next generation of commercial aircraft. The Large Scale Integration Demonstrator of Hybrid Electrical Architecture, known as LEIA, will support the development of high-voltage generation and distribution technologies for innovative electrical […]

Airbus-Built SpainSat NG-I Successfully Launched

February 2025April 14, 2025 Molly Bakewell Chamberlin

The first of two Airbus-built next-generation SpainSat satellites, SpainSat NG-I, has been successfully launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Operated by Hisdesat for the Spanish Armed Forces, the satellite is Europe’s most advanced secure communications satellite, supporting UHF, Ka, and X bands.