Aviation and space news
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August 18, 2026
After just over a week of activities in waters near the Hawaiian Islands, the US Third Fleet declared the Pacific Dragon 2026 Multinational Exercise concluded, which was attended by…
What to Know A Lufthansa A380 carrying 351 passengers struck runway approach lights while landing short of the threshold at Munich Airport, just days after a Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787 suffered a…
US President Donald Trump signed a national security presidential memorandum on August 13, 2026, requiring the Department of Defense to remove the Electromagnetic…
The Air Force’s Experimental Operations Unit hosted a change of command ceremony recently, another sign of how the CCA concept is maturing and becoming entrenched in the Air Force’s structure, to…
Between Aug. 11–12, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured a series of images of a new crater on the moon. The crater formed Aug. 5, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage impacted the…
One of the major obstacles limiting the exploration of the Moon is how to survive the lunar night. For about two weeks, lunar probes on the surface have […] The post Laser-beam…
Strategic collaboration integrates uAvionix FlightLine™ surveillance data into the Airwise Nexus platform to deliver real-time airspace
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Through a public-private partnership, LATAM Airlines mobilized veterinary supplies, food and rescue equipment following the earthquake recorded on August 10 in Colombia.
Through a public-private partnership, LATAM Airlines mobilised veterinary supplies, food and relief equipment after the earthquake recorded on 10 August in Colombia.
Viracopos International Airport, in Campinas (SP), has brought into operation a new automated border-control setup at the International Passenger Terminal. In total, there were…
On 3 August the Federal Communications Commission stopped simply blocking new entries to the US
Today’s decision comes after decades of fits and starts to find a new mobile howitzer, including the ill-fated Crusader, Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon and Extended Range Cannon Artillery.
The Air Force is looking for a new family of drones to serve as aerial targets for test missions, ranging from cheap, expendable quadcopters to large, reusable aircraft that can mimic…
Deimos, the smaller and outermost of Mars' two moons, is roughly oval in shape and has a deep depression at its south pole. Unlike its heavily scarred sister moon, Phobos, Deimos is covered by a…
On August 18, 2026, satellite communications and network software vendor Integrasys announced it was awarded two defense research and development contracts in Luxembourg valued at €2.89 million…
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Rakuten is brokering Helsing's sale of HX-2 strike drones to Japan's army, and the aircraft under test is the same one a German defense ministry document said struggled to launch in Ukraine.
Anduril Industries on Tuesday said that its YFQ-44A Fury prototype for the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program flew multiple daily sorties during a second exercise last month…
HOVERAir's VERSA opened on Indiegogo Tuesday with FCC certification for US sale, an approval its own AQUA drone never got and DJI's Osmo Pocket 4P still cannot obtain.
El Paso police told Texas senators they have tracked 1,776 cross-border cartel drone incursions and need more authority to respond. Congress already granted that authority in December. The…
Hillsborough County commissioners decide September 2 whether the nation's first EMS whole blood drone program flies in October. The wire coverage already calls it launched.
Free for nonsubscribers By Charlotte Bailey Aug. 18, 2026. © Leeham News/AIN: A UK-based consortium has launched what it believes is the world’s first oceanic airspace-scale trial aimed at reducing…
The Air & Space Forces Association urged congressional leaders this week to fully fund the Space Force’s record-breaking $71.1 billion budget request for fiscal 2027, increase F-35 procurement, and…
The Space Force will maintain its aging weather satellite fleet—which provides key forecasting data for military planners—until at least 2028 as it transitions to a new replacement architecture. The…
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Emirates SkyCargo successfully transported Altair-1, the United Arab Emirates (UAE )’s first AI-processing commercial satellite, on Aug. 13 2026. As part of Orbitworks’ Altair constellation, the…
Delta Air Lines expanded access to Delta Concierge, its digital assistant integrated into the airline's app, now available to all SkyMiles members. The tool…
Astronomers have discovered that the most massive galaxies in the early universe contain far more small stars than expected. As a result, these early galaxies were likely much more massive than…
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Between August 2 and 7, the Divisional Artillery of the Brazilian Army's 3rd Division (AD/3) carried out, at the Barão de São Borja Training Ground in Rosario do Sul (RS), the…
A new report from The Aerospace Corporation examining defense and space growth in the White House’s fiscal year 2027 budget request found that more than 75 percent of the increase is […]
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