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August 26, 2026

An MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter belonging to the U.S. Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, known as the 160th SOAR and nicknamed the "Night Stalkers," suffered a…

Teledyne FLIR OEM announced it was selected to support the U.S. Army’s Delivering Unmatched Thermal Capability Hastened (DUTCH) initiative, led by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of War for […]

Webb's MIRI spectrum identifies molecular water and oxygen-rich silicates around IRS 3, while projected geometry and the dust-production inference require careful separation. The post NASA’s James…
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A closer look at why Qantas never ordered the Boeing 777, despite influencing the plane's design, and why this wasn't necessarily a mistake.
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The instrument is scheduled to launch on August 30, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket…

AW | 2026 08 25 22:43 | INDUSTRY Boeing engineers prepare industrial strike The Boeing Company faces a major labor stoppage after thousands of engineers and…

Boeing has received a framework contract from the US government for the F-15 program with a maximum value of $131.23 billion (about €113 billion). It includes production of…
August 25, 2026

An MH-60 Black Hawk of the U.S. Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment crashed in a wooded area in Colorado, and the crew was able to escape without injuries. A U.S. Army MH-60 Black…
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The facility will be built in Vermilion Parish, on the Gulf of Mexico coast, and is expected to become the company's largest space operations center The post SpaceX to invest R$514 billion in…
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The complex will need a $100 billion investment to operate the Starship system with up to 30 daily flights. Construction starts in 2027, with launches projected for 2029.

How a Cold War workhorse is shaping the AI dogfighters of tomorrow.

In recent months, India has almost tripled its imports of Russian oil to shield itself from the consequences of the indefinitely prolonged crisis between Iran and the United States...

Aeroméxico adds US flights by opening a seasonal route between Guadalajara and New York, complementing its departures from Mexico City and…

NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in California is marking the addition of a brand new 34-meter-wide (114-foot-wide) radio frequency antenna to the agency’s deep space communications and navigation…

The Falcon 9 rocket will fly on a south-easterly trajectory upon launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Liftoff is scheduled for 2:34 a.m. PDT (5:34 a.m. EDT / 0934 UTC).

SpaceX announced plans today to build a second Starbase, this one on the coast of Louisiana. All Starship launches to date have been from Starbase, TX. They will soon begin […]

SpaceX aims to launch Starship from Florida by the end of the year. 2027 seems more likely.

United Airlines (UA) is expanding its new Elevated Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner cabin to more London services, with the aircraft now operating on all 3 daily flights between London Heathrow (LHR) and San…

The US and UK navies are preparing to sink the decommissioned Cold War-era frigate USS Klakring as part of Atlantic Thunder 26 (AT26), which will…
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A SWISS Boeing 777-300ER bound for Miami declared an emergency and diverted to Lajes Airport in the Azores after crew detected a strong cabin odor.

Lockheed Martin demonstrated a Guam Defense System (GDS) Battle Manager Suite breakthrough prototype in a simulated Guam operational environment. The prototype networks data from the Integrated Air…

LIMA, Peru, Aug. 26, 2026 – Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has outlined a comprehensive industrial and social collaboration package for Peru, totaling $1.8 billion in economic value, as part of its...

Planets form from disks of gas and dust around young stars, but the gas needed for growth does not last forever. New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) now offer a new view…
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After the health crisis caused by COVID-19, the flight market between Spain and the United States saw a strong recovery. Airlines such as Iberia, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines…

Boeing received one of the largest contracts ever associated with the F-15 program from the US government, with a ceiling of $131.23 billion for production, modernization…

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – Edge Aerospace is scaling its manufacturing in the U.S. through a licensing agreement with Redwire under which Redwire will manufacture Edge’s data processing units (DPUs) and…

U.S. Southern Command recently announced its first lethal strike on a suspected narco-trafficking vessel in two months, and the first under a newly formed permanent counter-cartel task force. The…
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New interiors will soon be coming to long-haul flights out of Poland.
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrived Tuesday to the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy’s Space Center in Florida, just days before its scheduled launch. The post NASA’s Nancy…

SpaceX plans to invest $100 billion in a sprawling new Starship launch site in Louisiana with 10 launch… The post SpaceX plans $100B Louisiana Starship spaceport with 10 launch pads appeared first…