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Space News reports, “A Rocket Lab Electron launched the first satellites for a new constellation being developed by Open Cosmos that will use…

Reuters reports, “GE Aerospace forecast annual profit above estimates on Thursday, driven by strong demand for high-margin aftermarket…

Spaceflight Now reports the Starlink 17-30 mission sent the batch of satellites into a polar low Earth orbit. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket…

Aviation International News reports, “Leonardo has made the first flight of what it described as the UK’s ‘first autonomous…

SPACE reports Blue Origin will launch six people “to the final frontier on Thursday (Jan. 22), and you can watch the space tourism mission…

Defense News reports, “Two MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters completed their first operational mission Jan. 8, escorting a Minuteman III…

The New York Times reports, “On Saturday morning, a mammoth crawler began transporting the Space Launch System vehicle, the Orion…

Aviation Week reports, “Textron Aviation announced delivery and entry-into-service of its Cessna Citation M2 Gen2 light jet equipped with…

Aviation Week reports, “NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman this week met with SpaceX and Blue Origin officials to get a better sense…

Defense Daily reports, “The Army’s first prototype aircraft for the High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) program will begin…

The ISS National Lab invites abstracts for technical sessions at ASCEND 2026 (19–21 May 2026, Washington, D.C.), covering biology…

Reuters reports, “Boeing bounced back in 2025 to deliver the most planes since 2018 and to beat European rival Airbus in net orders for…

Defense One reports, “Can quantum physics enable better, cheaper, faster satellite photos? In a month or two, a startup will test a ‘quantum camera’ for…

Flying Magazine reports, “The FAA in October 2024 published a special federal aviation regulation (SFAR) with seismic implications for the…

The Washington Post reports, “For the first time in the International Space Station’s history, NASA said it was cutting short a crew mission after…

CNBC reports, “Boeing is set to report this week that it delivered the most airplanes since 2018 last year after it stabilized its production, the clearest…

SPACE reports, “NASA said Friday that it plans to return the Crew 11 to Earth next week, just one day after announcing that a crew member had…

Aerotime reports, “Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) developer Archer Aviation has selected the NVIDIA IGX Thor platform to support its future…

Ars Technica reports, “NASA officials said Thursday they have decided to bring home four of the seven crew members on the International…

The New York Times reports, “Alaska Airlines said on Wednesday that it would buy 110 Boeing planes, part of an ambitious plan for growth fueled by…

CBS News reports, “A spacewalk planned for Thursday outside the International Space Station was called off late Wednesday because of a…

Reuters reports, “Lockheed Martin said on Wednesday it delivered 191 F-35 fighter jets in 2025 to the United States and its allies, a record for…

Defense News reports, “In December the Air Force awarded Boeing Defense Systems a more than $2 billion contract to start the first…

SPACE reports, “SpaceX recently stacked the giant Super Heavy booster that will help launch the upcoming 12th test flight of the…

Unmanned Systems Technology reports, “The organizers of the FIS Ski World Cup in Val Gardena recently integrated FlyingBasket heavy-lift…

The ISS National Lab invites abstracts for technical sessions at ASCEND 2026 (19–21 May 2026, Washington, D.C.), covering…

Aerotime reports, “Airbus is set to slightly exceed its revised 2025 aircraft delivery target, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar…

Space News reports, “Orbital launch activity set another annual record in 2025, although future growth may depend on factors different from those…

CBS News reports, “For the first time, an automatic landing system called Autoland was used to land a plane in Colorado after pilots reported…

SPACE reports, “Elon Musk’s company has now set a new mark six years in a row, and the numbers are getting pretty silly. The record has risen…

Flying Magazine reports, “The FAA has taken major strides toward the safe integration of advanced air mobility (AAM) aircraft…

Space News reports, “A first launch of the Long March 12A Chinese state-owned reusable rocket reached orbit late Monday…

Reuters reports, “Bombardier’s Global 8000 business jet, the world’s fastest civilian plane since the Concorde, has received…

Space News reports, “Rocket Lab successfully launched a Japanese radar imaging satellite Dec. 21 in the final flight of a record-setting…

Aviation Week reports, “The BAE Systems PHASA-35, an uncrewed, high-altitude, pseudo-satellite (HAPS), will operate monthslong airborne…

Via Satellite reports, “A Rocket Lab Electron rocket carrying the Pentagon’s Space Test Program (STP) S30 mission lifted off from the Virginia…

Aviation International News reports, “Israeli start-up Air has revealed the first production model of its Air One Cargo eVTOL…

SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets Wednesday, each carrying Starlink satellites, one from Kennedy Space Center in Florida…

Aerotime reports, “Wisk Aero, a fully owned subsidiary of Boeing, has successfully completed the first flight of its Generation 6 aircraft, bringing…

Space News reports, “A U.S. Space Force and NASA experiment is set to launch later this week to test a new small-satellite architecture designed…

Flying Magazine reports, “Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft developer Joby Aviation believes 2026 will be the year its air taxi…

Space News reports, “New analysis suggests that problems with NASA’s MAVEN Mars orbiter may be more serious than a simple communications…

Flying Magazine reports, “U.K. developer Vertical Aerospace this week unveiled its flagship electric vertical takeoff and…

Space News reports, “A Rocket Lab Electron rocket successfully launched a technology demonstration satellite for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on Dec. 13 as the company reshuffles its…

Aerotime reports, “EVIO, a little-known hybrid-electric aircraft developer backed by Boeing, stepped into the spotlight on December 11, 2025…

Aviation Week reports, “Avio says it plans to build an 860,000-ft. solid rocket motor production facility in Virginia to meet strong demand…

Unmanned Systems Technology reports, “Meteomatics, a weather intelligence company has collaborated with the U.S. Navy to trial…

SPACE reports, “Rocket Lab is getting ready to take a bigger bite out of the space launch market. The company recently completed final…

Aerotime reports, “Electric vehicle takeoff and landing (eVTOL) developer Vertical Aerospace has unveiled Valo, the latest evolution of its…