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Aéronautique
La France se dit prête à
coopérer avec Saab sur un avion de combat suédois de
nouvelle génération
Le 28 août 2026, la France
s’est déclarée prête à
coopérer avec la Suède au développement
d’un avion de combat de nouvelle génération,
quelques mois après l’arrêt de la plateforme
commune du Syst&egrav...
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Electra's Ultra Short Aircraft at the Center
of an Electric Aviation Project in Helsinki
Electra, a Virginia-based AAM (Advanced
Air Mobility) company, is officially part of a regional aviation
project all the way in Finland, supported by local authorities in
Helsinki. The project will unfold initially as a feasibility study to
analyze the potential for electric air mobility services be...
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Luxair a reçu ses deux premiers
Boeing 737-8
Luxair a réceptionné jeudi
ses deux premiers Boeing 737-8 en pleine propriété,
lors d'une cérémonie organisée dans son hangar
de maintenance au Findel. L'événement s'est tenu en
présence de Yuriko Backes, ministre de la Mobilit&ea...
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The Aircraft Set To Replace The Iconic
Airbus A380
Around twenty years after the Airbus A380 rewrote what it meant for an
aircraft to be large in the world of commercial aviation, the
industry's center of gravity has since shifted towards advanced
t...
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Airbus collabore avec Israel Aerospace
Industries (IAI).
Les relations entre l'avionneur
européen Airbus et Israël reposent principalement sur des
coopérations technologiques et industrielles dans le secteur
de la défense, ainsi que sur des collaborations avec des
entreprises israéliennes comme Israel Aerospace Industries
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GE Aerospace Flies Boeing 747 To Test New
Engine Tech
GE Aerospace and its CFM International
joint venture partner Safran use a former Japan Airlines Boeing 747
widebody to evaluate new engines such as the Leap 1B, the GE9X, and
the forthcoming RISE Open Fan technology. Test pilots can replicate
real-world operations at altitude while teams of engineer...
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Aircraft Structures Part 16. Automated dry
fiber infusion.
Last week we looked at thermoset prepreg
tape layup with different machine types, what tape types they use,
and how the molds could be simple flat plates or complex rotational
symmetric mandrels with cutouts for stringers, collapsible after the
autoclave cure so that the mandrel could be extracted f...
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Espace
Arianespace lance avec succès le
satellite météorologique MTG-I2 à bord d'Ariane
6 pour sa première mission vers l'orbite
géostationnaire
Le 27 août 2026 à 17h11,
heure locale, Arianespace a lancé avec succès le
2ème satellite imageur Meteosat Troisième
Génération (MTG-I2) à bord d’une Ariane 6
dans sa configuration à 2 boosters, Ariane 62. Le lancement a
eu li...
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SpaceX test-fires Starship Super Heavy
booster ahead of critical Flight 14
SpaceX conducted a full-duration static
fire of Starship’s 33-engine Super Heavy booster at the
Starbase site in South Texas on Friday (Aug. 28). The test supports
preparations for Flight 14, marking another step toward
Starship’s next test flight. SpaceX announced the test in a
Friday X...
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Firefly Aerospace CEO Cites Systemic Launch
Vehicle Shortage Amid Expanding Satellite Backlogs
In an interview detailing
state-of-the-market dynamics, Kim stated that despite high launch
cadences maintained by market leader SpaceX throughout 2026, total
available launch capacity continues to lag behind payload operator
manifest demand across national security, civil space, and commercial
cons...
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Airbus Considers Sale of U.S. Satellite
Manufacturing Facility in Strategic Shift Toward European
Production
The review examines Airbus Defence and
Space’s decision to move manufacturing of next-generation
OneWeb broadband satellites from the United States to its primary
industrial hub in Toulouse, France. The Merritt Island facility was
initially established as a 50/50 joint venture between Airbus
a...
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Positionnement par satellite : la Bande C
est-elle le futur de la navigation anti-brouillage GPS ?
La dépendance au GPS est quasi
totale : des smartphones aux systèmes militaires les plus
sophistiqués, tous reposent sur ce signal spatial,
malgré l’existence d’autres constellations, comme
Galileo. Fondée en 2020 par Patrick Shannon, la startup
am&eacu...
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ICEYE Opens Three International Offices in a
Single Week
The Finnish SAR satellite manufacturer
opened three new international offices this week—in the
Netherlands, Korea, and India—to capitalize on the growing
demand for sovereign satellite capabilities from national governments
and MoDs.The new offices signal a huge predicted surge of
demand...
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Space Force Adopts Digital Engineering Tool
for NC3 Satellite Program
A collaborative digital environment
developed by Space Systems Command and General Dynamics Information
Technology since 2023 could change how the Space Force and
potentially the broader Defense Department design and test
capabilities. Called Project Enigma, the platform supports the
Evolved Strateg...
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Le gouvernement nigérian approuve un
projet de $2 milliards associant IAI (Tel Aviv) et Thales
(France).
Le groupe de technologies
français Thales et l'entreprise publique de défense
israélienne Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) collaborent
régulièrement dans les domaines de
l'aérospatial, de la défense et des
télécommunications. Voici les ...
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Drones et nouveaux usages
New Chinese battery reaches 602.5 Wh/kg,
promises longer drone flight times
Chinese
researchers have developed a high-stability lithium metal pouch cell
with an energy density exceeding 600 Wh/kg, potentially addressing
the limited flight endurance of drones and electric vertical take-off
and landing aircraft.The battery was created by a join...
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Drones and robots: Korea tests high-tech
delivery in residential neighborhoods
Imagine ordering a bulky 40-kilogram
shipment of toys or library books and having a high-powered drone
whisk it across a river, deposit it onto an autonomous land vehicle
and watch a robot roll directly up to your apartment door. In Jinju,
a bustling city in southeastern Korea, that futuristic logis...
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Sarla Aviation and Hexcel plan composite
materials partnership for Indian eVTOL
Indian eVTOL developer Sarla Aviation
has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Hexcel to explore
a long-term supply and technology partnership covering the
aerospace-grade composite materials for its aircraft. The proposed
collaboration includes prepregs, carbon and glass fibre
reinforcem...
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20kW high energy laser systems that can fry
enemy's drones at rapid speed delivered to US Army
Two powerful high energy laser systems
have been delivered to the U.S. Army. Developed by AeroVironment,
the mobile counter-unmanned aircraft system is called Laser Weapon
Systems (LWS). The advanced weapon features AV’s 20kW-class
LOCUST LWS integrated on the General Motors Defense Infantr...
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FAA Expands Drone Testing
BEYOND Phase 2 Will Add Up To Eight New
Participants And Push More Advanced Operations Into The National
Airspace System The FAA is widening one of it's most important real
world laboratories for drone integration. BEYOND Phase 2 will bring
in up to eight additional state, local, tribal and territor...
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CSIR-NAL Plans NJ-150 Engine for Larger UAVs
and Cruise Missile Applications
India’s indigenous aerospace
propulsion ecosystem is moving towards a new class of small gas
turbine engines, with CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR-NAL)
planning to develop an NJ-150-class engine that could expand the
range of applications available to domestically powered unmanned
a...
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Wisk Announces a New Vertiport in California
for Autonomous Aircraft
A brand-new vertiport is already under
construction in California, and it's meant to become one of the first
public vertiports purposely designed to support both autonomous and
piloted aviation operations in the US. The name behind it? Wisk,
maker of the first autonomous passenger aircraft that's a ...
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