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News archive: Rolls-Royce plc

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6 May

Rolls-Royce pushes on with full-power hydrogen engine test

Testing at NASA Stennis has demonstrated a hydrogen-fuelled jet engine operating through a complete simulated commercial flight cycle.

4 December 2025

R-R accelerates airflow simulations using quantum computing

Simulation runtimes have fallen from weeks to less than an hour as teams use hybrid quantum-classical approaches to overcome key bottlenecks.

24 July 2025 More than 300 hours have been flown in a bespoke simulator by test pilots and engineers.

BAE reaches full-scale Combat Air Demonstrator design milestone

The UK’s first piloted supersonic demonstrator in four decades is now two-thirds structurally complete with wings and tail fins in build.

17 April 2025 The Seremban facility occupies 20,000 square metres of land with further expansion and upgrades already planned.

NAFCO launches Malaysian site as global output grows

The company's Seremban plant marked its official opening with industry and government guests and will focus on both aerospace and automotive components.

6 February 2025 Results from the first phase of the Hydrogen Challenge are expected to be published soon.

UK expands Hydrogen Challenge to accelerate zero-emission aviation

The extended initiative will support hydrogen propulsion testing, airport infrastructure upgrades and scientific research over the next three years.

24 October 2024 Rob Bray - Engineering Co-Founder, Hyflux (Left), Prof Rod Badcock, Victoria University of Wellington, Robinson Research Institute (Centre), and Dr Gareth Smith - Chief Operating Officer, Hyflux (Right) at the EFATS Conference in Netherlands.

HyFlux partners with researchers to develop zero-emission aircraft engine

This collaboration unites HyFlux’s cutting-edge innovations in superconducting motor technology with the world-class research expertise of the Paihau-Robinson Research Institute, led by Professor Rod Badcock.

20 April 2023 The Tempest.

UK MoD invests to progress technology for Tempest

The UK Tempest partners, working in close collaboration with the MoD, will now progress the maturity of more than 60 cutting-edge technology demonstrations, digital concepts and new technologies.

13 October 2022 Rolls-Royce's concept for a gas turbine running on hydrogen.

Twenty research projects gain EU clean aviation funding

Seven hundred million Euros will be available to innovators looking for the technological breakthroughs that could help deliver net zero carbon by 2050.

20 July 2022 The demonstrator aircraft will fly within the next five years.

UK lays out plans for next generation combat aircraft

Engineers at BAE Systems in the north of England are leading the design, test, evaluation and build, bringing together digital engineering technologies such as synthetic modelling and model-based systems engineering.

19 January 2022 The small scale spin testing facilities at Element Warwick will initially support Rolls-Royce programs.

Element partners Roll-Royce for UK spin testing

The Element team at Warwick will help Rolls-Royce conduct a comprehensive evaluation of its next generation disc alloy in shorter timescales, more conveniently than possible with its existing Berlin facility.

17 December 2020

Saab and Rolls-Royce target innovation in fibre-optics

Known as Project FibreSense, this collaborative research programme between Rolls-Royce and Saab will develop and demonstrate fibre-optic sensing technology for aerospace propulsion systems.