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August 7, 2026
The U.S. Air Force awarded Boeing a procurement contract for GBU-75 JDAM Long Range kits, clearing the initial production for the U.S. Navy. Boeing has announced that it has been awarded a $75…
While a SpaceX rocket smashes into the Moon and a rescue mission runs into trouble, a new bill may provide hope for science research.
A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but never directly observed. The results published Wednesday in…
Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) conducted more than 140 hours of observations of the magnetar 1E 1547-5408, shown in this Aug. 5, 2026, artist’s concept, between…
Authorities have not said publicly which procedures were allegedly violated.
On Aug. 7, 1980, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft orbiting Mars ended its epic and historic mission to the Red Planet. Here's why it mattered.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a new airworthiness directive (AD) requiring inspection of 471 Boeing… The post New FAA directive requires checks on 471 Boeing 737 MAX jets…
Red Flag Red Flag was established in 1975 as the brain child of Lt. Col. Richard “Moody” Suter and one of the initiatives directed by General Robert J. Dixon, then commander of Tactical Air Command…
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Boeing’s 777X program has run into a new customer problem. Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr confirmed the airline is preparing to reject
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is testing ground-penetrating radar technology to look for subsurface frozen water on Mars. Red Planet rotorcraft would be outfitted a flexible, fabric-based antenna…
Free for nonsubscribers By Howard Hardee August 7, 2026 © Leeham News: The commercial aerospace sector could be roughly a decade away from achieving high-rate production of major composite…
Meterorite ALH 84001 fell to Earth from Mars about 13,000 years ago, landing in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica. It was discovered in 1984 and taken to the Johnson Space Center, where in 1994…
New chief takes command as the Space Force prepares for rapid growth, acquisition reforms and Golden Dome The post U.S. Senate confirms Schiess to lead Space Force appeared first on SpaceNews .
The United States Air Force (USAF) has launched a new project that could revolutionize aerial refueling in coming decades. The service plans to use the rear section of a…
Redwire subsidiary SpaceMD announced a contract to fly up to 32 mini-labs on a future SpaceX Starfall mission. The post Redwire Books Starfall’s First Dedicated Mission appeared first on Payload .
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On Wednesday, August 5, 2026, at 06:35 UTC, the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket struck the Moon at 2.43 kilometers per second […]
A US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III recently sat unflyable for nearly 17 months because no supplier would build the tooling to… The post US Air Force flies first robot-formed panel on storm-damaged…
An out-of-control SpaceX rocket that crashed into the moon earlier this week did, in fact, leave an impact crater, according to images from a Korea AeroSpace Administration lunar orbiter that caught…
US financial investor Apollo Global Management has made a management-backed cash offer for the full takeover of British airline EasyJet…
South Korea's lunar orbiter Danuri has captured the effects on the Moon of the impact of SpaceX's rocket upper stage
Belgium has deployed four F-16 fighter jets and around 100 military personnel to Keflavik Air Base in Iceland as part of NATO’s Air Policing mission, marking the second such deployment in a year…
SpaceX's founder and CEO wants to rapidly ramp up the launch frequency of the giant rocket.
Central European budget carrier had 27 A320neos on the ground at the end of June. Wizz Air chief executive Jozsef Varadi believes the carrier is still on track to be clear of Pratt & Whitney GTF…
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Directive covers 471 U.S.-registered aircraft after fatigue cracks were linked to a fuselage reinforcement near the forward service door
The US Federal Aviation Administration is preparing an airworthiness directive to inspect hundreds of Boeing 737 Max passenger aircraft. The reason…
BETA Technologies and the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) have announced plans to expand their existing financing relationship, The post BETA Plans to Expand Manufacturing With…
Artificial intelligence shows promise in key maritime surveillance activities. A pair of demonstrations involving US Navy aircraft shows the potential for artificial intelligence in the…
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A South Korean satellite has captured the first pictures of the moon's fresh crash scene caused by a stray SpaceX rocket.
Before astronauts return to the Moon’s surface through NASA’s Artemis program, the hardware they depend on must first prove it can survive the unforgiving lunar environment. At NASA’s Johnson Space…
US private equity firm Apollo Global Management has finally acquired British low-cost airline easyJet for £5.7 billion (€6.653 billion…
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