Aviation and space news
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August 23, 2026
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The launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled for launch Sunday morning, August 30, from the Kennedy Space Center. More here. The post Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches…
SR-71 Blackbird J58 Engine at Max Afterburner Power Taken at Beale Air Force Base (AFB) in 1986, the impressive video in this post features the test of SR-71 J58 engine at max afterburner power…
Honda Aircraft Company celebrates its 20th anniversary in Greensboro, where the HondaJet was born and is still built. More than 275 aircraft delivered since the HA-420 was certified in 2015…
Observation Without Limits (OWL), a US-based manufacturer of 2D and 3D radars for ground and low-altitude airspace surveillance applications, has announced the launch of its The post OWL launches…
The U.S. Navy has publicly revealed a previously little-known next-generation air-to-air missile: the AIM-424 LRAAM (Long-Range Air-to-Air Missile), officially named “Malice.” The new missile was…
A highly venomous scorpion hid in a traveller's jacket and flew from Kos to Düsseldorf. The woman then reached into her jacket.
Arms programmes will be among the hardest hit if a 2027 finance bill is not passed on time, notes the General Inspectorate of Finance in a…
Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. August 22: Titan northwest of Saturn Let’s check out a lovely binary star in Corona Borealis the Northern Crown. Still…
The launch of China's Chang'e 7 lunar mission, planned no earlier than August 24 from the Wenchang Space Launch Site, has been postponed. According to information released on August 23 by the […]…
By Allison Dries-Padilla, Missions Operations Specialist at Malin Space Science Systems Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 14, 2026 This week of Curiosity Mars rover operations takes us back to our…
Aviación Digital, Sp.- According to the report from the Directorate-General for Biodiversity, Forests and Desertification of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic…
An unruly passenger who allegedly threatened female flight attendants and had to be restrained by all seven crew members aboard an Aer Lingus (EI) flight has pleaded guilty to interfering with…
«The Great Naval Battles in History, 1789-1945», written by General Vincent Lanata. Michel Polacco's choice. A meeting between an aviation journalist and a historian…
Aviación Digital, Sp.- As reported last Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, by the newspaper Press Digital, union representatives from CGT, UGT and ÚTIL will vote on Monday, Aug. 24, on whether to suspend the…
Fuel, capacity, and total flight time are all considerations airlines weigh in fleet decisions.
Aviación Digital.- On August 22, 2026 it emerged that an EA-37B Compass Call aircraft of the US Air Force (USAF) is operating from Powidz air base in Poland, on missions…
KONGSBERG announced it has signed a contract with General Dynamics Land Systems–Canada (GDLS-Canada) worth 1.1 billion Norwegian kroner, approximately 102 million euros, for…
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MANCHESTER, UK — A TUI Airways flight bound for Manchester was forced to issue an urgent Mayday call and execute a emergency diversion on Friday night after a security breach on the airfield blocked…
South Africa's Paramount Aerospace Industries is developing a specific configuration of the Mwari light two-seat aircraft for counter-drone use, designed to address the threat…
With power struggles increasingly playing out in the economic, information and technological spheres, Christian Harbulot has established himself as one of the leading thinkers on the subject…
The clouds of the planet Venus rotate around the planet about 60 times faster than the planet itself rotates. Every so often new research arrives…
The US Department of State has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to the Republic of Korea of AIM-9X Sidewinder Block II tactical missiles and…
Aviación Digital, Sp.- Saab has made concrete one of the issues that will shape the future of European air combat: how to combine crewed fighters with autonomous aircraft capable of…
Every year the cards are reshuffled in global air traffic. Airports and airlines climb, others lose ground. But do you know who was on top in 2025? A quiz.
In May 1940 the German Wehrmacht overran the Benelux countries and advanced rapidly into France. As in the Polish campaign, the Army and Luftwaffe worked hand in hand using Blitzkrieg tactics…
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At Lufthansa Aviation Training (LAT) in Frankfurt, Lufthansa's new Boeing 777-9 is ready to go – the most modern Level D simulator, where future pilots of today's largest newly built…
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US company General Atomics unveiled the new concept for the medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial system (MALE UAS) Wildfire, as a possible successor to the unmanned aircraft…
On 10 August, China suffered the rare failure of a Long March 7A rocket. It is a relatively new model, introduced in 2020. Its maiden flight did not conclude…
Aviación Digital, Sp.- Full reusability of an orbital system remains one of the hardest problems in aerospace engineering. In an interview on The Joe Rogan…
Aviación Digital, Sp.- The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published a new directive on 20 August 2026 in the Federal Register…
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