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August 18, 2026
The consumer cost of plans to tear down IAD and build the 'Trump Terminal.'
NASA's Starling mission has marked another milestone in spacecraft autonomy by using a new system that determines a satellite's position in orbit using as a reference…
In the ongoing litigation over the defects and temporary worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737 Max, the US manufacturer faces a further lawsuit. Four…
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GOL is changing leadership. After CEO Celso Ferrer resigned to join the Boeing group, GOL announced the appointment of André Fehlauer as […]
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Zipline and Uber Technologies, Inc. have announced a strategic partnership, which aims to scale drone delivery across the United States. Uber and Zipline are partnering to bring drone delivery to…
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AEROMEXICO ANNOUNCES ITS INTENTION TO OPERATE THE MEXICO CITY–MILAN ROUTE. The route is scheduled to launch in March 2027 and will be operated with Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. As part…
Boeing flight-test teams have taken the 777-9 and 737-10 into naturally occurring icing conditions as the manufacturer continues certification work on its newest passenger aircraft. The post Boeing…
The US Air Force is rebuilding five bases with more than $19 billion, from Tinian's WWII airfield to Guam's $8 billion defense shield.
The US airline Sun Country Airlines is significantly cutting back flight operations at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in autumn 2026. The reduction of about…
In Italy, the first components for the future Swiss Lockheed Martin F-35A fleet are being built. At the Leonardo plant in Cameri, a fuselage section and a wing for the fighter are made…
The post APOD: 2026 August 18 – Perseids from Perseus appeared first on NASA Science .
The powerful storm delivered extreme rainfall and damaging winds to the state, passing the Island of Hawaiʻi as a category 1 hurricane. The post Lala Batters Hawaii appeared first on NASA Science .
The US Department of War has signed with Boeing and RTX "two major framework agreements to increase production of key components for the Standard Missile-3…
The delivery period runs until December 31, 2030. The agreement marks a new step in modernizing the UH-72 Lakota fleet, one of the leading light helicopters in the…
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The US Navy awarded Raytheon, a company belonging to the RTX group, a $22.9 billion contract aimed at significantly increasing the production of cruise missiles…
Instead of relying solely on a single high-value, easily identifiable sensor, a force can deploy multiple small sensors that make it harder for the adversary to achieve complete neutralization…
Trump has expressed displeasure over the South Korean government's stance on the US campaign against Iran and Seoul's refusal to take part in certain initiatives promoted…
US Central Command has documented the presence of Task Force Nighthawk, made up of Apache helicopters from the 6-17 Air Cavalry Squadron, part of the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade. Centcom…
Pakistan’s J-35 Move Could Strengthen US Case for Offering F-35 to India : US based Think Tank Group
This report was originally published on IDRW.org. Pakistan’s reported move toward acquiring China’s J-35 fifth-generation fighter could strengthen the strategic argument in Washington for... The…
A NASA scientist's decades-long detective hunt to locate the Moon trees—seeds that orbited the lunar surface in 1971 and were scattered across America with no tracking system—has finally revealed…
This report was originally published on IDRW.org. A diplomatic posting in New Delhi is rarely quiet, and U.S. Ambassador Sergio Gor recently demonstrated the... The post Diplomatic Momentum…
M1 Support Services wins the Flight School Next program: a contract of up to 26 years and US$10 billion for the R66 as the initial instruction platform…
USS George Washington en route to relieve USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East, which leaves no carriers in the Pacific. The post Where Are The Aircraft Carriers?: August 17, 2026 appeared first…
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August 17, 2026
GE Aerospace and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced that the GEK800 engine, which received the U.S. Military Engine Type Designation F143-ZZ-100, has been awarded a contract with the…
Trump's decision comes amid growing concerns about America's commitment to Asian allies, especially as the standoff with Iran grinds on. The post U.S. Military Training With South Korea Reduced Over…
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The announcement comes as the company continues rebuilding the LC-36A pad, damaged by a New Glenn explosion during a test in May…
GE Aerospace and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions are advancing the GEK800, now designated F143-ZZ-100, after the US Air Force awarded the companies an engineering, manufacturing and development…
On August 17, 2026, NASA announced the successful flight demonstration of the Fast Autonomous Lost-in-space Catalog-based Optical Navigation (FALCON) system aboard the agency’s Starling CubeSat…
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of NGC 2392 (also known as the Lion Nebula), which Hubble previously imaged in 2000.
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, grew to its current size in part by consuming smaller galaxies. Now, new data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging…
