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Aéronautique
Le nouvel Airbus A380 FlightLab arrive en
France
L'ancien prototype historique d'Airbus
(le MSN 1 immatriculé F-WWOW) passe le relais à un
nouvel A380 FlightLab. Il s'agit du MSN 114, un ancien appareil
commercial ayant appartenu à Malaysia Airlines (qui fut
symboliquement le 100e A380 produit). Il est temporairement
immatricu...
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Qatar could buy four Boeing KC-46A tankers
for $4.5B
The U.S. State Department has authorized
a potential sale of up to four KC-46A aerial refueling aircraft to
Qatar, valued at approximately $4.5 billion, as noted in a
congressional notification from the Defense Security Cooperation
Agency released on August 20. The deal includes eight PW4062
turbofa...
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L'IA au service des opérations
aériennes : Ryanair noue un partenariat stratégique
avec Google Cloud
Ryanair a conclu un partenariat de cinq
ans avec Google Cloud pour déployer de nouveaux outils de
données, de cloud et d'intelligence artificielle dans
l'ensemble de ses activités. La low cost irlandaise
prévoit notamment d'équiper 35 000 salariés avec
Googl...
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Airbus prévoirait le premier vol de
l'A350F pour septembre 2026
D'après Reuters, Airbus
préparait le premier vol de son nouvel avion cargo A350F.
Selon les dernières informations communiquées par
l'avionneur, le vol inaugural reste prévu avant la fin de
l'année 2026, avec une date désormais envisagée
autour...
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Le nouveau gouvernement colombien veut
réexaminer le contrat d'achat de dix-sept avions de combat
Gripen E/F
En décembre 2022, le
ministère colombien de la Défense a annoncé son
intention d'acquérir seize avions Rafale F3 pour remplacer les
derniers avions Kfir de son armée de l'air. En réponse,
la société suédoise Saab a affirmé
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Heart Aerospace réussi le premier vol
historique de son avion électrique X1
Heart Aerospace a annoncé le
succès du premier vol de son avion de démonstration X1.
Avec une envergure de 32 m, une longueur de 23 pieds du nez à
la queue et un poids au décollage de plus de 11 tonnes, le X1
est le plus grand avion à propulsion élect...
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Accelerating aircraft IFEC diagnostics with
agentic AI on AWS
Panasonic Avionics worked with AWS and
the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to build an agentic AI system
on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Glue that diagnoses
in-flight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) issues across a
global fleet, reducing diagnosis time from hours to minutes
wh...
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Espace
1,200 Starlink satellites help map Earth's
hard-to-observe upper atmosphere
Starlink satellites are now helping
scientists map Earth's upper atmosphere. Researchers used orbital
data from Starlink to estimate thermosphere density. This method
creates a two-dimensional map of atmospheric density variations. The
findings offer a new way to study this difficult-to-observe
regi...
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SpaceX sends 27 Starlink satellites to orbit
on 100th Falcon rocket launch of the year (photos)
On August 22, SpaceX launched another
group of 27 Starlink internet satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket
from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 3:25 a.m. EDT (0725
GMT; 12:25 a.m. local time). This mission marked the 99th Falcon 9
launch of 2026 and the company's 100th overall Falcon missi...
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Sovereign Satellite Strategy Expands AST
SpaceMobile Backlog Amid Constellation Deployment Risks
AST SpaceMobile is leveraging its low
Earth orbit (LEO) satellite architecture to secure government and
military contracts requiring secure, sovereign communications
channels. By integrating government payloads onto its commercial
spacecraft buses, the company provides defense agencies with
direct-t...
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ISRO Transitions Rocket Manufacturing to
Domestic Private Sector to Scale India's Space Economy
The operational transition transfers
production lines for ISRO’s operational launch
fleet—including the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV),
Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3), and the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle
(SSLV)—to domestic private aerospace contractors.
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NASA Highlights Next-Gen Cargo Landers
Paving the Way for a Moon Base
NASA and its commercial partners are
making progress on their way to a permanent human presence on the
Moon. As part of that, a recent press release and accompanying
YouTube video hints they may be looking to provide regular updates to
the progress of those efforts - and, at least for this first
one...
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Chinese satellite business raises
$1.94bn
Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology
(SSST) has raised 7 billion yuan (about $1.94 billion) in a Series B
financing round, valuing the Chinese commercial satellite operator at
about $6.96 billion. Shanghai Spacecom, also known as Shanghai
Yuanxin Satellite Technology, was founded in March 2018 by ...
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China's reusable rocket advances could
strengthen the PLA's space-based kill chain
China's answer to reusable rockets could
make its military satellite network more resilient.
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Kratos Bets on Bigger Ground Antennas to
Handle High-Volume Satellite Data
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions
has introduced a new variant of its GAIA 100 Tri-Band ground station
antenna, designed for satellite tracking and high-volume data
transmission between orbit and Earth. The 6.1-meter (20-foot) antenna
offers horizon-to-horizon tracking, full hemispherical cove...
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Drones et nouveaux usages
Le suédois Saab dévoile le
concept de drone de combat collaboratif supersonique
«A3-001»
N'ayant pas souhaité se joindre
au Royaume-Uni, à l'Italie et au Japon pour développer
le GCAP [Global Combat Air Programme], la Suède s'est aussi
tenue à l'écart du Système de combat
aérien du futur [SCAF] qui, mené par la France,
l'All...
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U.S. Army drone sets endurance record using
domestic-made motors
A small drone, equipped with motors
assembled at Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania, successfully flew
for 8 hours, 41 minutes, and 43 seconds during a demonstration in
July at Edwards Air Force Base, California. This flight set a new
endurance record for its aircraft class, as reported by the
U.S...
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ThinKom to Develop High-Power Microwave
C-UAS System for US Army
The U.S. Army, through Portfolio
Acquisition Executive Fires' Program Manager for Advanced
Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System Effects (PM ACE), awarded ThinKom
Solutions Inc. an Other Transaction prototype project to deliver and
evaluate mobile high-power microwave counter-unmanned aerial system
capab...
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Elroy Air Gets $46M US Army Contract
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Elroy Air, Inc., a U.S.-based technology
developer of autonomous heavy-cargo drones for defence, rapid
response and commercial logistics announced today that it has been
awarded a $46 million, multi-year contract with the U.S. Army for the
development of an autonomous hybrid-electric vertical take-o...
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Lockheed Martin's Layered Counter-Drone
Defense Architecture
Lockheed Martin has created a
multi-tiered counter-drone system to respond to the growing threat
from low-cost swarming unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In August
2026, the company introduced a system aimed at detecting and
prioritizing these UAVs. Further details can be found in the full
article.
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Captation des détails
colorimétriques en cinématographie sublimée par
le capteur grand format du drone 6k
La captation aérienne a
évolué avec l'accroissement de la demande pour des
détails colorimétriques en cinématographie et
dans divers usages techniques. L'utilisation d'un drone 6K
équipé d'un capteur grand format permet d'atteindre de
nouveaux ...
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U.S. government orders more AEVEX kamikaze
drones
AEVEX Corp. has been awarded $41 million
by the U.S. government for one-way attack systems, as announced on
August 20, 2026. The company's Phoenix Ghost and EUCOM Deep Strike
programs collectively represent over 9,300 systems valued at $1.2
billion through 2026.
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An Apache and Black Hawk drill in Taiwan
shows how Ukraine's drones are changing helicopter warfare
A helicopter hot-refueling drill
during Taiwan's significant military exercise highlights the island's
efforts to address drone threats while its helicopters operate from
exposed forward positions, a risk underscored by recent events in
Ukraine. Counter-drone ground teams monitored the skies f...
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Propulsion et Energie
Embarquée
After €22.5 million raise, Vienna's
ENPULSION to acquire British space propulsion company Lift Me
Off
ENPULSION, an Austrian manufacturer of
spacecraft propulsion systems, has reached an agreement to acquire
100% of the shares of the UK-based company Lift Me Off (LMO), which
specializes in chemical propulsion and tank design and has
participated in European Space Agency (ESA) missions. The
financial...
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