Aerotime reports, “Airbus’ third-quarter performance in 2025 shows strong growth in aircraft deliveries, keeping the company on track for its annual target of around 820 for the year, even as new orders slowed in September 2025. According to Airbus’ latest aircraft delivery and order figures, the planemaker delivered 73 aircraft to 41 customers in September 2025, which is 12 more than the 61 aircraft delivered to 39 customers in August 2025.”
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Blue Origin Performs its 15th Space Tourism Launch
SPACE reports, “Blue Origin launched its 15th space tourism flight” yesterday (Oct. 8), “sending six people on a brief trip to the final frontier, including a mystery passenger who only revealed his identity after the flight. The company’s New Shepard vehicle lifted off from Blue Origin’s West Texas launch site [Wednesday] at 9:40 a.m. EDT (1340 GMT; 8:40 a.m. local Texas time), kicking off a suborbital flight known as NS-36.”
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AIAA Updates Book Proposal Process
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Book and eBook proposals are now accepted through AIAA ScholarOne Books Portal—the same trusted platform many authors already use for AIAA journals. For more than 50 years, AIAA books have captured the knowledge and expertise of leaders in our industry. With our updated portal, we’re making it simpler than ever to contribute to this legacy of advancing aerospace research and innovation.
AIAA Announces Winners of Prestigious Zarem Graduate Student Awards for Distinguished Achievement in Aeronautics and Astronautics
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October 8, 2025 – Reston, Va. – AIAA is pleased to announce the winners of the Zarem Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Achievement:
- Patrick Eid, Auburn University, won the astronautics award for his paper, “Evolution of the Bidirectional Vortex in a Capped Ellipsoidal Cyclonic Rocket Engine.” Eid presented his paper at the 76th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Sydney, Australia, 29 September–3 October 2025.
- Luke Busse, University of Cincinnati, won the aeronautics award for his paper, “Multi-Sensor Based Adaptive Fusion Scheme for Position Estimation of Multirotor UAV Systems in GPS-Denied Environments.” Busse will present his paper at the 35th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) in Sydney, Australia, 13–18 September 2026.
The winners will receive their awards at AIAA SciTech Forum 2026, Orlando, Florida, 12–16 January 2026. This award was established by AIAA Honorary Fellow Abe Zarem, founder and managing director of Frontier Associates, to annually recognize graduate students in aeronautics and astronautics who have demonstrated outstanding scholarship in their field.
Patrick Eid, Auburn University, Astronautics Award
Patrick Eid is a Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Auburn University. He is a member of the Advanced Propulsion Research Lab directed by Professor Joseph Majdalani. Eid holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Notre Dame University (NDU). He has distinguished himself through leadership roles as Secretary of the ASME Student Chapter, Treasurer of the Astronomy Club, and Deputy Secretary General of the Model United Nations Program. His prior accolades include global honors at NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge and top distinctions in the ASME EFx Oral Presentation Competition at NDU and the 2025 AIAA Region II Student Conference.
Eid’s faculty advisor, Joseph Majdalani, is the Francis Chair of Excellence in Aerospace Engineering at Auburn University. An AIAA Fellow, he is recognized for pioneering work in acoustic instability and cyclonic-engine technology. With over 350 publications and 21,000 citations, he ranks in the top 0.8% of aerospace researchers globally. His breakthroughs include new cyclonic, vorticoacoustic, asymptotic, computational, similarity, stability, boundary-layer, and high-speed flow formulations. He is known for coauthoring Viscous Fluid Flow with Frank White while cracking the Pohlhausen paradox on its centennial anniversary. Besides 27 Best Papers, his main accolades include the Walker Teaching, Spencer Mentorship, Wyld Propulsion, Von Kármán Lectureship, Research Excellence, Abe Zarem Educator (4 times), Book Author, Outstanding Graduate Mentor, Leland Atwood Educator, Sustained Service, Foundation Faculty Advisor, Dannenberg Educator, Hap Arnold, Ralph Teetor Educator, Marquette Outstanding Teacher (twice), and CAREER Awards.
Luke Busse, University of Cincinnati, Aeronautics Award
Luke Busse received Bachelor of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering Technology and Engineering Management from Bluefield State University, WV, in 2022, and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 2025. He is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati under the supervision of Dr. Manish Kumar. Busse’s research interests include autonomous navigation and control of uncrewed aerial vehicles, machine learning, and multi-sensor fusion. His research is focused on hardware and software development of UAV systems capable of navigating in previously unknown environments where GPS is unreliable or unavailable while processing real-time data for mission-critical applications to achieve autonomous operation.
His faculty advisor, Manish Kumar, received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University. After serving as a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University, the U.S. Army Research Office, and University of Pennsylvania, he started his career as a faculty member at University of Cincinnati (UC) in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering where he currently serves as a Professor and the Graduate Program Director. At UC, he directs Cooperative Distributed Systems (CDS) Laboratory, co-directs Industry 4.0/5.0 Institute, and co-directs Applied Autonomy Lab. His research interests include unmanned aerial vehicles, robotics, decision making and control in complex systems, AI, multi-sensor data fusion, swarm systems, and multiple robot control.
For more information on the Abe M. Zarem Graduate Awards for Distinguished Achievement, contact Merridith Kauten, at [email protected] or 703-264-7503.
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Exploring AAM Multimodal Integration at 2025 AIAA AVIATION Forum
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At the cutting edge of aerospace innovation, novel advanced air mobility (AAM) aircraft and technologies are poised to redefine how passengers and cargo move through complex, multi-use transportation networks. What early use cases could reap the benefits of this opportunity to enhance door-to-door mobility? The AIAA AAM Multimodal Working Group, in partnership with ITS America formally began this conversation with a webinar in June 2025, and expanded their programming with an in-person workshop at 2025 AIAA AVIATION Forum, “Early Use Cases for AAM Integration in Multimodal Transportation.”
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Blue Origin to Build Payload Processing Facility at Cape Canaveral SFS
Aviation Week reports, “Blue Origin will build a new payload processing facility at Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, under a U.S. Space Force contract announced Oct. 7. The service’s Space Systems Command (SSC) recently awarded the space technology company a $78.25 million contract under its National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Space Vehicle Processing Commercial Solutions Opening contract, to help expand the Eastern Range’s rocket processing capacity by 2028, the command said in a release.”
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Airbus A320 Surpasses Boeing 737 as Most Delivered Jet Ever
Aerotime reports, “The Airbus A320 has surpassed the Boeing 737 as the most delivered commercial aircraft in history upon Saudi airline Flynas receiving the European manufacturer’s 12,260th jet. According to a Reuters report on October 7, 2025, data from industry analysts Cirium shows that the A320 in question was delivered overnight, giving Airbus a slight lead over Boeing’s 737.”
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FCC Declares October as ‘Space Month’ in Effort to Accelerate Satellite Regulatory Reforms
Space News reports, “FCC Chairman Brendan Carr vowed Oct. 6 to accelerate satellite regulatory reforms, declaring October as ‘Space Month’ at the U.S. regulator to overhaul licensing and spectrum rules amid mounting competition from China.”
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Pilots Demand Air India Ground Boeing 787s After Emergency System Used
The New York Times reports, “India’s largest association of pilots has asked regulators to ground all Boeing 787s in use in India and inspect them for electrical issues after one of the planes unexpectedly deployed an emergency power system over the weekend. The device, known as the ram air turbine, drops from the fuselage when a plane loses power or hydraulic pressure, and helps power critical systems like flight controls and navigation instruments.”
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Ascendant Alumni – Their Journey & Where They Are Today
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Since the inception of ASCEND in 2020, a global community of emerging space trailblazers has taken the stage to pitch their vision for “Space for All.” In five years, the community has grown to 60 thought leaders. Program creator Moriba Jah, in an interview before this year’s final cohort, said, “What they share is a fire and a passion to be agents of change,” and to advocate for “regenerative, restorative, and just human space activity.” The Ascendants profiled [in this article] share how the program inspired their journey as space stewardship advocates.
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