Aviation and space news
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August 26, 2026
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot completed their spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) this…
Aviación Digital, Sp.- The best-selling aircraft family in history is once again under regulators' scrutiny: on August 13, 2026, the US aviation authority published…
Korean Air will open a daily route between Seoul-Incheon and Hiroshima from 23 December 2026, operated with an Airbus A321neo.
A power outage triggered a large-scale police operation at Paderborn/Lippstadt Airport overnight on 24 August 2026. The loss of electrical power caused the doors to unlock…
NASA has selected the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to operate the Orbiting Carbon Observatory missions (OCO-2 and OCO-3) starting this autumn. Both OCO-2, a satellite…
Tianwen-2 has reached a fast-spinning asteroid that Webb estimates at only 18 plus or minus 2 metres wide, just as new spectra and models reopen its proposed lunar origin. The post China’s Tianwen‑2…
An excavation carried out near one of the pipelines of the NATO POL North Italy system was discovered in Vezzano Ligure, province of La Spezia, triggering an investigation by…
The fastest star in the Milky Way orbits so close to our supermassive black hole that it perceives its rotation. Astronomers have discovered…
NOEMI Aerospace has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Indian seaplane operator SkyHop Aviation for the potential introduction of up to 15 NOEMI amphibious aircraft in India. Under the…
NASA's Deep Space Network center in California celebrates the addition of a new 34-metre-wide radio frequency antenna to its communications and navigation…
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"The speed of the project, the buzz and the pomp make it all very questionable." In response, Shotwell said SpaceX plans to keep much of the site undeveloped and that…
The plan to replace TSA agents across the US is being scaled back and rebranded.
Dolly Parton died on 25 August 2026 in Nashville, at age 80. With her passes one of the…
Avcon Industries, Inc., a subsidiary of Butler National Corporation, has delivered the first King Air B200 aircraft modified for specialised mosquito-control missions. The aircraft modification…
French Polynesia's government submitted a proposal to the overseas territory's assembly for financial support to airline Air Tahiti Nui. Planned is…
The National Military Command Center notified the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (IGSU), which issued an RO-Alert message at 07:31 to warn residents of the area about…
From Monday 7 September to Friday 25 September 2026. During this period, laser beam emissions are planned every day around the clock except weekends. Hence the creation of six restricted…
Urban noise is reshaping how animals communicate, with Berlin's nightingales demonstrating that evolution doesn't wait for generations—it happens in real time. The post Berlin’s nightingales turn up…
China’s Long March-6C carrier rocket has successfully launched and deployed seven satellites into their orbits from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on 25 August 2026. The launch took place at…
Finnish-headquartered sovereign intelligence provider ICEYE has announced the establishment of two new subsidiaries, ICEYE Netherlands and ICEYE India, operating from Amsterdam and New Delhi…
Second quarter of 2026 Order intake decreased by 45% to 140,625 T.SEK (257,799) Revenue increased by 17% to 112,622 T.SEK (95,900) EBITDA increased by 104% to 14,290 T.SEK (7,018) Operating profit…
As part of the deployment of Spain's Air and Space Force in command of NATO's Enhanced Air Policing mission (eAP-72) in Romania, the Tactical Air Detachment (DAT) "Paznic" and…
SpaceX has announced plans to construct a new Starship processing and launch complex in Louisiana designed to support thousands of launches annually. Located in Vermilion Parish, the proposed…
In the early hours of Friday 28 August 2026, a partial lunar eclipse will be visible, including from Italy. It will begin in the dead of night and reach its maximum shortly before…
270 people lost their lives in the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988. A defendant acquitted at the Lockerbie trial has now died at the age of 70…
Ukraine marked its 35th Independence Day with a military display unlike any it had staged before: robots on the streets of Kyiv, naval drones on the Dnipro river and UAVs in the skies above the…
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems predicts the new drone it plans to pitch for the military’s “Massed Modular Aircraft” program will exceed many of the military’s requirements for a successor to…
Can one eclipse hide another? After the big rendezvous on 12 August, the Moon is about to cross Earth's shadow to eclipse itself in turn, almost totally. This time…
Graham Wild, aviation coordinator at ADFA and UNSW, came to the conclusion after analysing annual data for Australian commercial air transport from the ATSB between 2003 and 2025. It comes after a…
Tomorrow night, weather permitting, the full Moon over the Americas is going to do something it will not do again for more than two years. Beginning in the late evening of Thursday, August 27…
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