Aviation and space news
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August 18, 2026
The Patriot is one of the most advanced air-defense and anti-missile systems currently in service. Developed in the United States during the 1980s, it was originally conceived to…
Honeywell Aerospace has announced the successful validation of a new satellite communications antenna designed to enable safe, reliable command-and-control of unmanned aircraft flying beyond visual…
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Norse Atlantic Airways is seeking new customers for part of its Boeing 787 fleet. According to Bloomberg, the Norwegian carrier is in talks with Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and…
Boeing's test teams recently flew the 777-9 and 737-10, the company's newest passenger jets, through clouds over the western United States and Canada to verify…
Mexico and the United States have signed a non-binding declaration of intent that will allow Mexico's Secretariat of National Defense to access the US Army's digital market…
NASA is streaming live coverage as two astronauts prepare for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled to last about six and a half hours.
The US Army awarded M1 Support Services the Flight School Next contract, worth US$10 billion, beating Bell and Lockheed. It runs for 26 years. It is a…
A modern model built around Viking 2's frost photographs and weather record finds a narrow 30-sol season when microscopic calcium-perchlorate brines may briefly form in Martian soil. The post NASA’s…
Navy Captain Óscar García and Navy Captain Carlos Zúñiga were honored as distinguished alumni by the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) of the United States Navy during a symposium…
The manufacturer puts its total payload capacity at 1,746 kg, of which up to 1,361 kg corresponds to external loads. The platform can integrate electro-optical and infrared sensors…
Lockheed Martin, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, received an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract worth up to $31.3 million for engineering and advisory services…
Stepping into the cockpit of an Airbus A320neo after flying the Boeing 737 MAX reveals a world of differences.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would extend an existing medical-certificate exception (already available to certain U.S. military…
NRO contract increases U.S. government access to satellite data used to locate radars, ships and other electronic emitters The post NRO to expand use of HawkEye 360’s satellite intelligence appeared…
By: Hispaviación Editorial Team Photo: Hyde County Emergency Services The operational deployment of the Pivotal BlackFly on 911 service missions in North Carolina represents a demonstration of…
A total of around 100: according to Iranian authorities, US or Israeli strikes destroyed or damaged far more civilian aircraft than previously known. For the…
18-08-2026 A paramedic in rural Hyde County, North Carolina, has operated a single-seat eVTOL aircraft to respond to real 911 emergency service calls. …
The company has clarified that this inappropriate conduct has no impact on the multinational's finances, its client relationships or the group's operations, nor is it related…
The porosity between civil and military aviation is as old as civil aviation itself, dating back to the interwar period. More so for commercial aircraft, those dedicated to scheduled…
A Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787-9 operating flight VN34 between Munich and Hanoi narrowly avoided disaster after overrunning the runway end during takeoff on Saturday, August 15, 2026. The aircraft…
Zipline is partnering with Uber to offer drone delivery across the United States. The partnership will first go live across markets where Zipline already operates The post Zipline pledges 1M…
SpaceX has agreed to keep Poland within Starlink’s European roaming region after the country’s foreign minister threatened to reconsider roughly $50 million in annual payments to the company. The…
Akasa Air has signed a sale-and-leaseback agreement with Avolon covering up to seven Boeing 737-8200s. The aircraft are intended to support the Indian carrier's growth. Akasa Air signed […]…
The aircraft is one of three variants in the Boeing 787 series.
Written by K.-P. Ludwig SPRIND’s 2026 space strategy imagines a sovereign European orbital economy built on innovation and autonomy. But the U.S. Space Command’s SWE 2040 describes a very different…
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Raytheon, an RTX Corporation company, announced it will dramatically accelerate production of BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles for the U.S. Navy over a period…
US carrier Delta Air Lines plans to resume scheduled flights to Singapore after a multi-year suspension. According to the company's commercial director, Joe…
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GOL Linhas Aéreas named André Fehlauer as its new CEO after Celso Ferrer stepped down to become president of Latin America and the Caribbean for Boeing. The change will take effect…
During just the early stages of the offensive, nearly 30% of US Tomahawk reserves had already been used, the same network reported back in April. In the current fiscal year, the Pentagon…
Firefly Aerospace will be able to bid for new NASA contracts to prepare payloads for missions launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The…
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