Is ArianeGroup helping build New Glenn?

While Blue Origin is picking up the pieces of its Cape Canaveral launch pad, financial filings submitted earlier this year by ArianeGroup’s German subsidiary offered a glimpse into one of New Glenn’s ...

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Sputnik x Poké Ball: ESA and Pokémon team-up for World Space Week

A small ball was once thrown out to "catch 'em all," beginning a competition and attracting the attention of the entire world. Now, almost 70 years after the launch of Sputnik, ESA has teamed up with ...

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Exclusive: The USAF T-1A Jayhawk Poses For Its Final Air-to-Air Photo Shoot

Ahead of the type’s planned retirement from Vance AFB, T-1A 93-0654 took to the skies over Oklahoma for one last aerial photography mission with The

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A SpaceX rocket just crashed into the moon. Now, the race is on to get a look at the impact site

Orbiters are taking a close look at the predicted crash site to learn more.

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P-8 Poseidon Crews Controlling MQ-4C Triton Drones Becoming A Reality

The P-8A and MQ-4Cs were designed to work in concert, but direct in-flight control of Tritons will open new tactical possibilities and greatly extend the Poseidon's reach.

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XQ-58 Valkyrie Drone Crashes At Dugway Proving Ground In Utah

The stealthy autonomous drone's manufacturer, Kratos, said it went down upon takeoff while in a "test configuration."

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New Glenn explosion linked to rocket engine valve

Blue Origin has traced the explosion of its New Glenn rocket during a static-fire test in May to a valve in the rocket’s BE-4 engine.

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SpaceX earnings: Elon Musk says Starlink could deliver most of the world’s internet within a decade

Elon Musk says Starlink could carry most of the world's internet within a decade. SpaceX's first earnings report as a public company showed the satellite business, built on satellites made in Redmond,...

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Bombardier Eyes Canadian Special-mission Business Jet Modification Site | AIN

Additional AEW&C conversion facility follows strong worldwide interest in GlobalEye

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Why a SpaceX-Tesla Merger Could Benefit Shareholders in Both Companies

In 2016, Elon Musk defended Tesla’s proposed acquisition of SolarCity, a solar energy firm co-founded and run by his first cousins, by calling it a “no-brainer.” As it turned out, the purported benefi...

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The U.S. Navy’s new search for ultra-long-range strike brings its Pacific strategy into focus

Notice to industry seeks uncrewed strike aircraft with 1,000-nautical mile range for future carrier air wing

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LEGO deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model

In its 35 years orbiting Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope has been released as a LEGO model three times. Now, a fourth take on the telescope refocuses attention from the outside of the satellite to w...

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ESA Astronaut Completes Third Test of EuroSuit Prototype Aboard ISS

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot has completed a third test of the EuroSuit intravehicular activity spacesuit prototype aboard the ISS.

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A-10 Flies Armed Airborne Escort in Exercise with a Ballistic Missile Submarine

The Ohio class ballistic missile submarine USS Nebraska (SSBN 739) received an airborne escort while surfaced in the Pacific Ocean, exercising with a U.S.

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X-62A Toting Infrared Search And Track Pod Used Its AI 'Brain' To Autonomously Intercept An 'Enemy' T-38

Being able to autonomously use sensor data to engage aerial threats is exactly what the USAF wants from its future CCA drones.

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Ukrainian drones hit Wildberries warehouses in overnight strikes

Russian retailer has become a key target for Kyiv as it aims to bring Putin’s war closer to home

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Embraer wins Colombian order for two KC-390 transport aircraft

Brazilian planemaker Embraer said on Tuesday that ​Colombia has signed a contract ‌to buy two KC-390 Millennium planes, as outgoing President Gustavo Petro seeks to ​modernize the country's military fleet.

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The MIT Dinner That Created Aviation Week | Aviation Week

Orville Wright and Alexander Graham Bell played a role in establishing the magazine 110 years ago.

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Hughesnet files for bankruptcy as SpaceX irreversibly eats into subscriber base

WIth this filing, the company is looking to go after a new market to make itself viable again. Unfortunately, a third of the workforce, or 400 people, will be laid off.

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Stoke Space Technologies announces Moses Lake expansion

MOSES LAKE — A company experimenting with reusable rockets will be expanding its operations in Moses Lake. Stoke Space Technologies will be adding test facilities on 324 acres across the road from its...

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SpaceX is set to acquire 130,000 acres of marshland in southern Louisiana

A Louisiana launch site would offer several significant advantages.

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LEGO deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model

LEGO released its new Icons Hubble Space Telescope model on Saturday (Aug. 1), building upon its line of adult-aimed sets honoring historic NASA spacecraft.

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KC-135 Damaged In Fatal Mid Air Collision Transits Home with Donor Tail

The surviving KC-135R Stratotanker from the incident over Iraq in March which saw another Stratotanker lost with six fatalities has been repaired with a

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Exclusive: NASA's new KSC chief tackles Artemis deadlines, aging infrastructure

FLORIDA TODAY sat down with Brian Hughes, NASA's newly appointed director of Kennedy Space Center.

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Starship Soars as SpaceX Looks to AI

SpaceX’s colossal Starship launch vehicle lifted off July 24th from the company’s launch facility in South Texas on its thirteenth integrated flight test.

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Boeing builds momentum with 737 Max, 777-9 and production advances ahead of Farnborough

Executives detail redesigns of the 737 Max’s engine anti-ice and angle-of-attack systems, alongside flight-test headway with new widebody-twin.

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United's Vision for Dulles is a Go

The devil is in the details of the revitalization of Washington Dulles International Airport.

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ArianeGroup Completes Themis Wet Dress Rehearsal - European Spaceflight

ArianeGroup has completed a wet dress rehearsal of its Themis reusable booster demonstrator at the Esrange Space Centre in Sweden.

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