Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 diverted back to Austin–Bergstrom International Airport after the pilots reported problems with the right-hand engine on Thursday. The aircraft returned in response to the suspected metal-debris indication, and crews carried out an inspection on arrival.
Bloomberg
• Lynn Doan
By Bloomberg: Alphabet Inc.’s Google has agreed to pay Elon Musk’s SpaceX $920 million a month for computing power as part of a cloud services deal that runs through mid-2029, its second such agreement with an AI competitor in a matter of weeks.
Wall Street Journal
AINonline
• Hanneke Weitering
By AINonline: USSOCOM program advances into aircraft integration phase.
Bloomberg
• Siddharth Philip
By Bloomberg: Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc., one of the world’s largest air cargo operators, is considering an order for Boeing Co.’s latest 777X freighter even after the company placed a sizable aircraft order with rival Airbus SE.
Reuters
• Joey Roulette
By Reuters: A worsening air leak aboard the International Space Station prompted five astronauts to take shelter and prepare for evacuation for roughly two hours on Friday as Russia attempted to fix a crack on its portion of the orbital laboratory, NASA said.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: The FCC granted Amazon a deadline waiver to launch half of its constellation by the end of July, but the waiver came with conditions on spectrum priority.
The Air Current
• Julie Johnsson
By The Air Current: Boeing is studying raising production of its cash-cow 737 family to a 70-jet monthly rate, although it hasn’t yet made any firm plans to do so, CEO Kelly Ortberg said Friday, confirming a report by The Air Current.
One Mile at a Time
• Ben Schlappig
By One Mile at a Time: Qatar Airways plans to resume flights between Doha (DOH) and Philadelphia (PHL), after cutting the route in 2023. Here's what we know so far.
AINonline
• Joseph Carfagna Jr.
Breaking Defense
• Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo
Reuters
• Kane Wu, Summer Zhen
Bloomberg
• Albertina Torsoli, Alberto Brambilla, Samuel Stolton
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
