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July 9, 2026
U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has awarded Leidos [LDOS] a more than $27.2 million fixed price incentive contract for procurement of the company’s AGM-190A “Havoc Spear” Small Cruise…
Airbus has finalised a contract for the purchase of 10 H125 helicopters by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations (CBP AMO). These aircraft will be operated by Air and Marine…
The U.S. Space Force has declared the L3Harris Technologies Meadowlands System operationally accepted, marking a critical milestone in space electromagnetic warfare capabilities.
Domestic contractors vying for U.S. air traffic control modernization projects are citing Chinese business ties as well as cyber and national security concerns in their latest bid to shut out…
These sulfur crystals were found inside a rock after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over it and crush it on May 30, 2024, the 4,200th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
A locking pin that was meant to secure the main nose gear of a Lufthansa Boeing 787 Dreamliner that collapsed at Frankfurt Airport as engineers carried out maintenance on the brand new aircraft was…
L3Harris Technologies has received orders totaling $84 million in support of the U.S. Army for Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) manpack Falcon® systems.
A serial litigator who has filed lawsuits against a slew of international airlines 27 times in less than two years has been declared a ‘vexatious litigant’ by a U.S. District Judge in Northern…
Germany will purchase Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States and station them on German soil.
The third category 5 tropical cyclone of 2026 crossed the U.S. Northern Mariana Islands and Guam before continuing toward Asia.
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The flight-leading booster, B1067, launched the Starlink 10-42 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff from pad 40 happened at 5:25 a.m. EDT (0925 UTC) on Thursday morning.
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July 8, 2026
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NATO is to buy up to 10 GlobalEye aircraft by Sweden’s Saab that may replace nearly all of the alliance’s aging 14 Boeing [BA] E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System […]
The field of companies eligible for National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3, Lane 1 awards is now at seven after the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded […]
This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows Messier 3, a densely packed cluster of stars whose origins may be a merger between globular clusters in the early universe.
Blue Origin is raising $10 billion at a $130 billion pre-money valuation from Coatue Asset Management, Bezos himself, and other big-name investors, The New York Times reported.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (July 8, 2026) – Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a global leader in aerospace and defense technology solutions, announced today it has appointed pioneering industry leaders Paul…
In the last decade, SpaceX has transitioned from just a commercial launch company to a full-scale aerospace contractor for hire. From its early NASA contracts to being the sole supplier of crewed…
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July 7, 2026
Following its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting science data gathered in the distant…
The Artemis II crew participates in the dedication of the Apollo 14 Moon tree at the Lunar Receiving Park at NASA's Johnson Space Center. This tree is a second-generation Apollo Moon tree of the…
You may not know the Aechelon name, but if you’ve flown for the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, or Special Operations community, there’s a good chance you’ve trained in one of our…
*Rendering of aeroshell for NASA SkyFall mission to Mars; Credit: Firefly Aerospace Cedar Park, Texas, July 7, 2026 – Firefly Aerospace (Nasdaq: FLY), a market leading space and defense technology…
“It is genuinely made in NATO and is creating jobs on both sides of the Atlantic,” alliance Secretary-General Mark Rutte said.
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Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, July 7, 2026 — Boeing’s [NYSE: BA] MQ-28 Ghost Bat has participated in Exercise Valiant Shield alongside F-35A, F-35B, F-15EX, HC-130, E-3, E-2D,...
July 6, 2026
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The congressional fiscal 2027 defense bill mark-ups so far contain the Space Force’s full $442 million request for the Northrop Grumman [NOC] Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC). The Senate…
SpaceX launched a series of 81 payloads to a Sun-synchronous Earth orbit over a roughly 2.5-hour-long deployment period. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base happened at 12:12 a.m. PDT…
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman leads a flyover featuring his personally owned F-5 Tiger during the Great American State Fair on July 4, 2026, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
As the Pentagon posits future confrontations involving advanced adversary aircraft and drone swarms, the U.S. Air Force wants rapid prototyping to develop and field 1,000 to 3,500 supersonic…
In new images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to celebrate its fourth science anniversary, a familiar galaxy transforms into something far richer, and far more complex, than ever…
As NASA prepares for a sustained human presence on the Moon, missions will increasingly require spacecraft that can navigate and communicate without a direct connection to Earth. NASA’s Cislunar…
