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News archive: Ascendance

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13 March 2025 ATEA’s hybrid-electric design combines eight vertical and two horizontal electric motors for low-carbon regional transport.

Ascendance selects electric motors for ATEA prototype

ATEA’s hybrid-electric propulsion system will integrate Safran’s EASA-certified ENGINeUS motors, with ground testing already underway in southern France.

30 March 2023 The ATEA.

Ascendance gains funding to fly full-scale prototype

ATEA, the hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft, is a quiet, low-carbon alternative to helicopters that provides an ideal response to the need for decentralised and regional point-to-point aviation.

2 December 2021 ATEA is a five-seat vertical take-off and landing aircraft with modular hybrid engines.

Ascendance reveals design for tandem-wing VTOL

Eight rotors are set into a tandem wing configuration. Patented by Ascendance, this shrouded rotor technology allows increased power during the take-off and landing phases in addition to significant noise reduction.