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By Tony Osborne
More European countries have ended their evacuation airlift operations from Afghanistan that were helping thousands of nationals and Afghan citizens flee the Taliban.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
Asia-Pacific air forces are finalizing their Afghanistan evacuation operations ahead of an Aug. 31 deadline set by the Taliban for foreign troops to leave the country.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Cambridge University has launched the Aviation Impact Accelerator, an international group of experts who will develop a modeling tool to help decision makers understand the complete aviation system and explore potential pathways to net-zero flight.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
Two experimental satellites built for the Space Development Agency are “tumbling” in orbit, the agency director said.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A furious air evacuation from Kabul, Afghanistan, continued hours after a bomb and rifle attack by suspected terrorists killed 12 U.S. service members and scores of Afghan civilians, U.S. Central Command’s top officer said on Aug. 26.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Finalists in a U.S. Air Force challenge to identify potential high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing concepts for special operation missions are expected to be announced by the end of September.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Call them letters of interest, pre-orders or some other term, electric aircraft startups are persuading potential customers to make early commitments of different forms to their products. In return, customers are gaining an ability to influence the design and investors are receiving votes of confidence in the aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Sierra Space is in discussions with the European Space Agency and German aerospace center DLR to extend existing partnerships covering crew access to the International Space Station to include new commercial vehicles.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
A second stage motor for a hypersonic missile in development by the U.S. Army and Navy has completed a ground test, Lockheed Martin said on Aug. 26.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
Startup Dawn Aerospace has completed initial test flights of a reusable suborbital spaceplane demonstrator in New Zealand.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
The Royal Norwegian Air Force is preparing to equip a third search-and-rescue base with the Leonardo AW101 SAR Queen helicopter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Several European countries have ended their Afghan evacuation operations ahead of the planned U.S. withdrawal from Kabul’s airport on Aug. 31.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard suborbital rocket successfully boosted 19 experiments to the fringes of space on Aug. 26.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Navy has approved Northrop Grumman to launch production of the AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile - Extended Range (AARGM-ER) for Boeing F/A-18E/Fs, EA-18Gs and Lockheed Martin F-35B/Cs.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Jen DiMascio
U.S. Space Force, Space Command and the National Reconnaissance Office have signed a “protected defense” strategic framework to align their space warfighting efforts.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
Russia has said that deliveries of Pantsir ground-based air defense systems to Myanmar are on track despite February’s military coup in the Southeast Asian country.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The Qatar Emiri Air Force named the Boeing F-15QA “Ababil” during a closed roll-out ceremony on Aug. 25 in St. Louis, the manufacturer announced.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Aircraft and satellites are being used in a research campaign to measure methane being released as the permafrost thaws in regions north of the Arctic Circle.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Startup Astroscale’s ELSA-d orbital debris removal demonstration has accomplished its first key goal, with the servicer satellite showing how it would capture a defunct spacecraft.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Alphabet drone delivery company Wing is close to passing the milestone of 100,000 commercial deliveries, more than half of them in the last eight months in Logan, a city of 300,000 people south of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
Production of the first all-new and modernized RS-25 engines for NASA’s Space Launch System has begun in Aerojet Rocketdyne’s newly expanded Los Angeles manufacturing facility.
Space

By Guy Norris
Startup Firefly Aerospace says plans remain on schedule to attempt the first launch of its two-stage Alpha rocket from Vandenburg SFB, California, on Sept. 2 following a successful static fire test in mid-August.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Sikorsky has blamed the ongoing downturn in the commercial helicopter market for the closure of its commercial helicopter final assembly line in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and UPS have started delivering COVID-19 vaccine by drone at the health care system’s medical complex in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Irene Klotz
With support from a NASA Tipping Point technology development award, Mojave, California-based Masten is developing a suborbital aerospace testbed with an option for point-to-point payload transportation.
Space