Three years to the day after settling a bruising legal fight over trade secrets, Archer Aviation is buying the company that once sued it. On Monday, Archer and Boeing announced definitive agreements under which Archer will acquire Wisk Aero along with two other Boeing subsidiaries, SkyGrid and Insitu. In return, Boeing will receive a substantial equity stake in Archer, warrants for more shares later, a board seat, and continued access to key autonomy technology.
The US Air Force has selected Boeing to develop the F-47, a 6th-generation fighter jet based on the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) platform. How did this come about? This decision narrowed to between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, with Northrop Grumman having withdrawn from the contest earlier.
This past weekend on August 31st, NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore contacted Mission Control to report an unusual sound coming from the Boeing Starliner spacecraft’s speaker ahead of its return to Earth. He said it was similar to a pulsing noise, almost like a sonar ping of sorts, occurring at regular intervals.
Photo credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket sucessfully launched the crewed Boeing CST-100 Starliner from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 10:52am ET. This mission sees NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams embarking on a 25-hour flight to the International Space Station (ISS), marking the beginning of the NASA-Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test (CFT).
