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The seventh and eighth O3b mPOWER satellites were launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 5:26 p.m. EST from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2025.

Korean Air Aerospace Division provides depot level maintenance for the ROKAF F-15.

Spirit Airlines' sale to JetBlue was blocked on the premise of preserving competition but it should have been obvious that Spirit, in serious financial trouble, was no longer able to compete effectively in the U.S. market.

The AAPA is uncertain about the potential impact of a new U.S. administration led by President-elect Donald Trump on the region’s air transport sector.

Following the recent U.S. presidential election, a new administration will have an opportunity to help the aviation sector.

Amid an intensifying rivalry with the U.S., China is leveraging its dominance of critical mineral supply chains.

Reaction Engines, the UK-U.S.-based pioneer of hypersonic propulsion and thermal management systems, has been forced into closure.

The A&D industry’s critical minerals supply chain is in a precarious position given its reliance on Chinese imports, panelists say at the Zero Gravity summit.

The acquisition agency is procuring 160 remote modular terminals (RMTs).

This event coincided with a worrying escalation by Russia in its 33-month war against Ukraine.

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned two Chinese firms that are producing drones in China used by Russia in its war with Ukraine.

NATO partners have linked arms on a responsive space launch initiative that could use Europe’s growing network of spaceports.

The latest deals come as RTX works to close several legacy investigations of RTX’s Raytheon defense division.

Part of the challenge of wildfire response is detecting a fire and dispatching first responders to remote areas before it reaches an inflection point.

Thus far in 2024, non-U.S. NATO military spending has increased 18% while Asia’s defense expenditure has grown 10%, compared to 7% in the U.S.

Co-production with allies and partners is increasingly intertwined with U.S. efforts to revitalize the defense industrial base.

Belgium, Denmark and Romania had entered preliminary discussions as of December 2023.

Pillar II covers a bevy of advanced defense capabilities.

The U.S. and Japan have chosen Northrop Grumman to continue development of a new long-range hypersonic defense system known as the glide phase interceptor.

The Mineral Security Partnership will provide targeted financial and diplomatic support for strategic projects along the value chain, the U.S. State Department said.

The U.S. and India will deepen defense industrial cooperation, the two countries’ leaders said on Sept. 21.

The Biden administration’s SAF Grand Challenge set the goals of 3 billion gal. per year of domestic production by 2030.

The UK should consider acquiring U.S.-developed hypersonic weapons until it can fully resource nationally developed weapons, a think tank says.

The clear gulf dividing Europe and North America over the level and intensity of hydrogen propulsion research appears to be of growing concern to Airbus.