Aurora Flight Sciences
About
About Aurora Flight Sciences
Aurora Flight Sciences, part of Boeing, develops experimental aircraft, autonomous-flight technology and composite aerostructures from concept through flight testing. Its autonomy teams work across perception, guidance, navigation and control, detect-and-avoid, route planning, multi-vehicle coordination and human-machine interfaces, using simulation, hardware-in-the-loop laboratories and optionally piloted test aircraft.
Current platforms include the battery-powered SKIRON-X and hydrogen-fuel-cell SKIRON-XLE, hybrid VTOL fixed-wing aircraft for long-endurance reconnaissance and rapid payload changes. Centaur supports repeatable autonomy trials in shared airspace, while AACUS demonstrated vehicle-agnostic conversion of a conventional helicopter for autonomous cargo missions and landing-zone selection. Aurora also manufactures composite structures and robotic production systems for Boeing and defence programmes.
Products
- SKIRON-X
SKIRON
Timeline
Events
- 2026-02-19 - Demonstration - Aurora demonstrates FALCON AI control on uncrewed surface vessels
The DARPA LINC program demo used 1.5-meter and 5-meter uncrewed surface vessels to simulate underway replenishment hazards. AI-guided control kept the vessel pair inside the safe zone 94% of the run and reduced recovery time after induced hazards by 61% versus manual control. Aurora worked with MIT aerospace and marine autonomy labs on the learning-based control architecture.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Boeing
Parent Company - Aurora Flight Sciences is a wholly owned Boeing subsidiary that continues to operate under the Aurora name.
- DARPA LINC program
Program Sponsor - Aurora demonstrated FALCON control technology under DARPA's LINC program.
- MIT Aerospace Controls Laboratory and MIT Marine Autonomy Laboratory
Research Partner - Aurora worked with MIT aerospace and marine autonomy labs on FALCON control architecture.
Context
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Context tags
- Aerial autonomy technology stack - Stack Layer - Company profile and first-party sources support this operating context.
- Defence aircraft builder - Peer Group - Company profile and first-party sources support this operating context.
- Advanced Air Mobility - Customer Environment - Company profile and first-party sources support this operating context.