News for August 12, 2026
August 12, 2026

AAC led panels on e-commerce growth and the operational demands of the airport sector.

AAC led panels on e-commerce growth and the operational demands of the airport sector.

Wizz Air will establish its tenth base in Romania in Brașov, expanding its offering to 15 active routes and adding flights to Spain, Germany, and Moldova.

Wizz Air will establish its tenth base in Romania in Brașov, expanding its offering to 15 active routes and adding flights to Spain, Germany and Moldova.

With Standard 3 technology and 360-degree reads, Santo Domingo began the transition to automated baggage processing without disrupting flights.

With Standard 3 technology and 360-degree scanners, Santo Domingo kicks off the transition to automated baggage processing without disrupting flight operations.
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A $28 million contract expansion adds Victus Salo 2 and 3 to an earlier award for responsive-space missions The post Space Force orders two more Impulse Space vehicles for maneuvering demonstrations…
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During the month of July, the company delivered 53 aircraft, a 10% increase compared to the same month last year. Boeing recorded 429 net orders for the year to date, including more than 130…

Japan is strengthening its role in the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) as it prepares for the next generation of air combat. The post Japan Turns to GCAP 6th-Gen Fighter Amid Most Advanced Jet in…

The Swedish Air Force is speeding up the preparation of its Gripen fighters to boost sortie generation and ensure greater survivability in a possible high-intensity…
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After completing its first sea trials early in the year, the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) put to sea again to begin a new and decisive stage in its process of joining…

Startups are bringing software, robotics and manufacturing methods developed around commercial space into a defense industry under pressure to produce weapons faster The post Pentagon missile…

The eROSITA telescope has released its second great catalogue of the X-ray sky with close to two million sources across half the sky, roughly double what it published before. Buried in it is a…

Catalina Aircraft Company announced today that it has adopted the Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) across the avionics and mission-systems architecture of its clean-sheet Catalina SPAR program…

A computer component developed in the United States was found inside the new S-71M Monokhrom, a sophisticated Russian weapon launched from combat aircraft and designed to…

As demand for rapidly deployable counter-drone technology accelerates worldwide, MatrixSpace has appointed industry veteran John Bagocius as Head of Sales to expand the company’s global go-to-market…

Aviación Digital, Sp.- Spain has just experienced one of the most significant astronomical events of recent decades, and for the aerospace sector, the eclipse has been much more than a…

Total solar eclipse August 12! Whether you saw it or not from your location, you can experience it! See the best images from our community here. The post Total solar eclipse August 12, 2026: Best…

The mission is carried out in support of civil authorities and State Security Forces and Corps, without the tasks assigned to military units replacing the functions…

Calian Group will help train the British Army for another 15 years under a contract worth about $20 million a year, or $296 million in total, the Ottawa headquareted company announced Tuesday.

Blazars are galaxies with a jet aimed almost directly at us, and they flicker across every part of the spectrum at once. Almost everything we think we know about them comes from short observing…

It's common to see images of astronauts on the International Space Station exercising, running on special treadmills and pedaling cycles designed for tight quarters.

The latest to say no was Finland, which has refused to transfer its stockpile of Patriot missiles to Ukraine. The Minister of Defense, Antti Häkkinen...

Unprecedented operation: eight oil tankers (nearly one million tons of oil) are sailing north of Severnaya Zemlya because the Vilkitsky Strait is blocked by ice...

BlackSky Technology won an international seven-figure, multi-year contract for combined Assured and On-Demand subscriptions. Following a successful initial pilot, the customer quickly signed an…

August has one more astronomical treat in store - a deep partial lunar eclipse! The post Prepare for the Lunar Eclipse on August 27-28, 2026 appeared first on Sky & Telescope .

Aviación Digital, Sp.- The incident, recorded on August 10, 2026 at around 11:20 local time, once again highlights a risk that is not very visible but persistent in airport operations…

The French Army (lArmée de Terre ) has gained considerable momentum in its effort to renew capabilities with the introduction of new equipment that improves the potential of…

The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, Albania, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland…

My opinion of the Iveco VM90 is already well known, to the point that I have dedicated several articles to it and even renamed it…