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August 26, 2026
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Avolon Holdings Limited (“Avolon”), a global leader in aircraft leasing and financing, has agreed a sale and leaseback with Akasa Air (“Akasa”), the…

The US airline United Airlines presented on 25 August 2026 at Newark Liberty International Airport its plans for deploying the new narrow-body aircraft type Airbus A321XLR…

A NASA-led Nature analysis found that measurement uncertainty probably created the apparent ceiling in Earth's polar geomagnetic response; after calibration, the response remained linear. The post…

Even the smallest of these big hitters has more than 7,000 troops at its disposal.

Lufthansa LH760 Boeing 787 diverts to Baku after a technical malfunction, with ACARS messages revealing operational details. The post Lufthansa New A350 Operating Delhi Flight Makes Emergency…

The Air Force closely follows the AIM-424 Malice, developed for the F-35C and F/A-XX fighters

SpaceX plans to invest at least USD100 billion in a new spaceport on the Louisiana Gulf Coast designed to support thousands of Starship flights a The post SpaceX plans USD100 billion Louisiana…

Dolly Parton had a fear of flying and preferred to travel by tour bus. Still, the country legend left her mark on aviation too.

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Anil Menon successfully completed US EVA-98 at 20:57 CEST on Tuesday 25 August. It was Sophie’s second spacewalk, and the 32nd conducted by a European…

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Anil Menon completed US EVA-98 on Tuesday 25 August at 20:57 CEST. It was the second spacewalk by…

Flight controllers on the ground have already confirmed that the newly installed antenna has good power and data transmission, and will continue testing overnight to ensure…
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Mammoth Freighters LLC announced today the delivery of its first converted freighter Boeing 777-200LRMF (MSN 32222 / N703DN) to Jetran LLC. This important delivery represents the…

Air Algérie wants to rely more heavily on foreign providers for extensive maintenance work. To that end, the airline has launched an international tender to preselect…

ASL Aviation Holdings is pleased to announce the acquisition of two Boeing 747-400ERF freighters, previously operating within the ASL Group fleet under a leasing arrangement…
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Aircraft seat manufacturer Recaro has begun deliveries of its new-generation R4 seat, now certified for the Boeing 787. All Nippon Airways (ANA) has already started…

The United States Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster III, which unexpectedly landed in Moscow on Tuesday morning (August 25), returned to Riga that evening. The…

In 2020, after the failure of the XM2001 Crusader and XM1203 NLOS-C (non-line-of-sight cannon) programs, intended to

The exploration of the universe will enter a new stage with the arrival of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a NASA mission designed to observe regions of the cosmos with coverage…
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SpaceX's space base in Texas maintains an intense pace of activity with the simultaneous advancement of Starship vehicles, Super Heavy boosters, and infrastructure aimed at increasing capacity…

The North American aerospace company SpaceX unveiled on Tuesday its project to build a spaceport in Louisiana, from where it plans to launch its giant Starship rocket and…

Aviación Digital, Sp.- SpaceX's launch cadence made history again in the early hours of August 25, 2026: in a single liftoff, the company logged its hundredth Falcon 9 launch…

Aviación Digital, Sp.- On August 25, 2026, two astronauts completed outside the International Space Station a delicate repair that had been left unfinished a week earlier…

Embraer announced that its Phenom 300EV aircraft has received triple certification from Brazil's Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC), the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European…

Curiosity’s hand-sized polygons resemble ancient wet-dry cracks elsewhere in Gale Crater, but NASA is testing several other origins before assigning this vast fracture field a water history. The…

NASA astronaut Anil Menon and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot completed their spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) this…

Aviación Digital, Sp.- The best-selling aircraft family in history is once again under regulators' scrutiny: on August 13, 2026, the US aviation authority published…

NASA has selected the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to operate the Orbiting Carbon Observatory missions (OCO-2 and OCO-3) starting this autumn. Both OCO-2, a satellite…

NASA's Deep Space Network center in California celebrates the addition of a new 34-metre-wide radio frequency antenna to its communications and navigation…
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"The speed of the project, the buzz and the pomp make it all very questionable." In response, Shotwell said SpaceX plans to keep much of the site undeveloped and that…

SpaceX has announced plans to construct a new Starship processing and launch complex in Louisiana designed to support thousands of launches annually. Located in Vermilion Parish, the proposed…