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$160M Deal Reached to Advance Next Generation Aerial Firefighting Platforms
It will assist Bridger Aerospace with the acquisition of four SuperScooper firefighting aircraft.
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Capella Space Unveils Next-Generation Satellite
Capella's Acadia generation of satellites will unlock improved technology to further advance the company's Earth-imaging offerings.
August 10, 2022
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Joby Expands Partnership With U.S. Department of Defense
It bolsters the eVTOL aircraft company’s primary goal of launching a commercial passenger service.
August 10, 2022
Federal regulators said Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, that they are satisfied with changes Boeing has made in the production of its 787 Dreamliner passenger jet, clearing the way for the company to resume deliveries to airline customers “in the coming days.”
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FAA Officially Clears Boeing to Resume Deliveries of 787 Dreamliner
Issues prevented Boeing from delivering any of the planes for most of the last two years.
August 9, 2022
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Blue Canyon Opens Factory Dedicated to Manufacturing CubeSats
The expanded 31,000-square-foot facility consolidates manufacturing efforts with dedicated CubeSat employees to build large spacecraft constellations.
August 5, 2022
Nearly 2,500 workers at three Boeing defense plants in the Midwest voted Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, to ratify a contract that their union said will raise pay by an average of 14% over three years and add inflation adjustments.
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Machinists at 3 Boeing Defense Plants Ratify New Contract
Less than two weeks after union members rejected an offer and authorized a strike.
August 4, 2022
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In this handout photo taken from video released by Roscosmos on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, a Russian Soyuz rocket lifts off to carry Iranian Khayyam satellite into orbit at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome near Baikonur, Kazakhstan. A Russian rocket has successfully launched an Iranian satellite into orbit. The Soyuz rocket lifted off as scheduled at 8:52 a.m. Moscow time (0552 GMT) Tuesday from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan.
Russia Successfully Launches Iranian Satellite
August 9, 2022
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the Long March 5B Y3 carrier rocket, carrying Wentian lab module blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Wenchang in southern China's Hainan Province Sunday, July 24, 2022. Debris from the rocket that boosted part of China’s new space station into orbit fell into the sea in the Philippines on Sunday, July 31, the Chinese government announced. Most of the final stage of the Long March-5B rocket burned up after entering the atmosphere at 12:55 a.m., the China Manned Space Agency reported.
China Says Remains of Rocket Booster Fall to Earth
August 1, 2022
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Boeing to Open Japan Research Center
August 1, 2022
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FAA Clears Boeing to Resume Delivery of 787 Dreamliners
August 1, 2022
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VerdeGo Gets $12M to Grow Hybrid-Electric Powertrain Systems for Aero
The company is led by the "father of hybrid electric aviation" who flew the world’s first hybrid-electric aircraft in 2011.
July 29, 2022
This artist's sketch provided by Spaceport Camden shows the launch pad complex of the proposed Spaceport Camden in Camden County, Ga. The owner of a large industrial site on the Georgia coast said Thursday, July 21, 2022, it has ended a longstanding agreement to sell the property to a county government that has worked for years toward using the land to built a launch pad for commercial rockets.
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Georgia County Files Suit to Force Land Sale for Spaceport
Opponents say the project would pose safety and environmental risks that outweigh any economic benefits.
July 29, 2022
The logo of Airbus group is displayed in Toulouse, south of France, July 9, 2020. Airbus said net income plunged in the second quarter of 2022 and warned that supply chain challenges were leading it scale back production targets for its commercial aircraft.
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Airbus Scales Back Production
The company's net income plunged.
July 28, 2022
This photo provided by NASA shows a rock collected by the Perseverance rover on Mars. NASA is launching two more mini helicopters to Mars in its effort to recover Martian rocks and soil samples and bring them to Earth.Under the plan announced Wednesday, July 27, 2022, NASA’s Perseverance rover will do double duty and transport samples to the rocket that will launch them off Mars a decade from now.Perseverance already has gathered 11 samples, with about 30 more to go. The most recent sample, a sedimentary rock, holds the greatest promise of containing possible evidence of ancient Martian life, according to Arizona State University's Meenakshi Wadhwa, chief scientist for the retrieval program.
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NASA to Launch 2 More Choppers to Mars to Help Return Rocks
The helicopters will be modeled after NASA’s successful Ingenuity.
July 28, 2022
A line of Spirit Airlines jets sit on the tarmac at the Orlando International Airport on May 20, 2020, in Orlando, Fla. JetBlue is buying Spirit Airlines, Thursday, July 28, 2022, in a $3.8 billion deal, a day after Spirit and Frontier Airlines agreed to abandon their merger proposal.
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Frontier Deal Fails, Spirit to Merge with JetBlue
The agreement capped a months-long bidding war.
July 28, 2022
In this Dec. 6, 2021, file photo provided by NASA, the International Space Station orbited 264 miles above the Tyrrhenian Sea with the Soyuz MS-19 crew ship docked to the Rassvet module and the Prichal module, still attached to the Progress delivery craft, docked to the Nauka multipurpose module. Russia's space chief said Tuesday, July 26, 2022, that they will opt out of the International Space Station after 2024 and focus on building its own orbiting outpost.
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Russia to Drop Out of International Space Station after 2024
The announcement, while not unexpected, throws into question the future of the 24-year-old space station.
July 27, 2022
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Company Begins Production on Balloon-Powered Space Capsule
Tickets are priced $125,000 per person.
July 27, 2022
This photo provided on Tuesday, July 26, 2022, by Sotheby's, shows a jacket worn by astronaut Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin on the historic first mission to the moon's surface in 1969, which sold for nearly $2.8 million at auction.
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Buzz Aldrin Flight-to-Moon Jacket Sells for $2.8M
The jacket displays Aldrin’s name tag on the left breast above the Apollo 11 mission emblem.
July 27, 2022
In this Jan. 25, 2011 file photo, the Boeing Company logo on the property in El Segundo, Calif. Boeing is reporting a $193 million second-quarter profit for shareholders, Wednesday, July 27, 2022, but the results are falling short of Wall Street expectations.
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Boeing Reports Q2 Profit
But the company fell short of expectations as it remained unable to deliver any of its 787 Dreamliner planes.
July 27, 2022
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Russians Reportedly Building Satellite-Blinding Laser
It's designed to temporarily blind intelligence satellites.
July 26, 2022
On a hot Sunday afternoon, with a large crowd of amateur photographers and space enthusiasts watching, China launched the Wentian lab module from tropical Hainan Island.
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China Adds Science Lab to Space Station
The 23-ton lab is heavier than any other single-module spacecraft currently in space.
July 25, 2022
Traffic drives in view of a Boeing Co. production plant, where images of jets decorate the hangar doors on April 23, 2021, in Everett, Wash. Roughly 2,500 Boeing workers are expected to go on strike the following month at three plants in the St. Louis area after they voted Sunday, July 24, 2022, to reject a contract offer from the plane maker.
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About 2,500 Boeing Workers to Strike After Rejecting Deal
The strike is planned to begin Aug. 1.
July 25, 2022
New technologies take on a bigger role in the cockpit, redefining what it means to be a ''Top Gun''.
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Tomorrow's 'Top Gun' Might Have Drone Wingman, Use AI
New technologies are set to redefine what it means to be a “Top Gun."
July 22, 2022
This image provided by NASA, Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev perform maintenance on the International Space Station on Thursday, July 21, 2022. Cristoforetti teamed up with Artemyev to work on the International Space Station’s newest robot arm. The 37-foot (11-meter) mechanical limb _ contributed by the European Space Agency _ rocketed into orbit with a Russian lab last July.
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Italian, Russian Share Rare Spacewalk Amid Ukraine Tensions
Italy’s Samantha Cristoforetti teamed up with Russia’s Oleg Artemyev to work on the International Space Station’s newest robot arm.
July 22, 2022
This artist's sketch provided by Spaceport Camden shows the launch pad complex of the proposed Spaceport Camden in Camden County, Ga. The owner of a large industrial site on the Georgia coast said Thursday, July 21, 2022, it has ended a longstanding agreement to sell the property to a county government that has worked for years toward using the land to built a launch pad for commercial rockets.
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Georgia Spaceport Land Deal is Off, Site Owner Says
Union Carbide noted that Camden County voters had “repudiated” the land purchase.
July 22, 2022