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Both Companies Report Weak Orders & Deliveries – 737 MAX Technical Review to Release Observations, Findings, and Recommendations Soon. by J. Kasper Oestergaard, European Correspondent, Forecast International. Boeing and Airbus …
Airbus and Boeing Report August 2019 Commercial Aircraft Orders and Deliveries Read More
The Space Race was a back and forth struggle to expand the horizons of humankind. The competition involved two contenders, the United States and the Soviet Union. To this day, …
Saturn V’s Rival: The Most Powerful Rocket Never Flown Read More
Orders Drought: Only One Jet Ordered in Unusually Weak Month by J. Kasper Oestergaard, European Correspondent, Forecast International. Boeing and Airbus delivered 30 and 81 commercial jets in May 2019 …
Airbus and Boeing Report May 2019 Commercial Aircraft Orders and Deliveries Read More
Telesat, a Canadian telecommunications satellite provider, will likely choose a manufacturer for its planned LEO constellation before the year is out.
Telesat Likely to Select LEO Constellation Manufacturer in 2019 Read More
The tensions between rivals Russia and Ukraine have strained relations between the two nations. Prior to the unrest in the Donbass and the annexation of Crimea, the Russians and Ukrainians …
Sea Launch: A Lesson in Cooperation Read More After almost 15 years of exploration, the Opportunity rover mission on Mars has ended. NASA attempted to contact the rover for a final time on February 12, 2019. Its silence …
NASA’s Opportunity Rover Mission Concludes Read More
Telesat, the Canadian global telecommunications satellite operator, announced that the two teams tasked with designing a low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation have completed system requirements reviews. The teams are Airbus …
Future Telesat LEO Constellation Passes Milestone Read More
On January 8, 2019, software on the Hubble Space Telescope detected a voltage level abnormality within the Wide Field Camera 3. The instrument, in turn, shut down automatically for safety …
Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 Is Back to Work Read More
Telesat will undertake investigations under a DARPA contract to study the use of commercial low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations to meet the needs of the Department of Defense. According …
DARPA Awards Telesat Contract to Investigate LEO Systems Read More China has launched two Beidou-3 navigation satellites into space aboard a Long March 3B (CZ-3B) launch vehicle. Liftoff occurred on November 19, 2018 at 2:07 a.m. local time (November 18 …
China Sends 42nd and 43rd Navigation Satellites into Orbit Read More