European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
NASA has delivered the first braking engines for ESA’s Rosalind Franklin Mars mission, advancing key hardware needed for the spacecraft’s Mars entry and descent profile. Separate work continues to secure the required RHUs (radioisotope heater units), keeping power-system qualification on the critical path.
Associated Press
• SIMINA MISTREANU
By Associated Press: A witness and media reports say a small aircraft has crashed into Beijing’s tallest building, the CITIC Tower, triggering evacuations and drawing a large police and ambulance presence.
Breaking Defense
• Aaron Mehta
By Breaking Defense: A new series of reports from Breaking Defense provides an unparalleled look at how a key Pentagon acquisition program comes together, and where it threatens to fall apart.
FlightGlobal
• Jon Hemmerdinger
By FlightGlobal: The US order comes after Transport Canada issued an emergency airworthiness directive. The Federal Aviation Administration is requiring helicopter operators to promptly complete inspections of some Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) PW210 turbines due to a problem involving exhaust frame cracks.
Ars Technica
• Financial Times
By Ars Technica: Move would test whether group can turn ambition into a mass-market phone business.
FlightGlobal
• Graham Dunn
By FlightGlobal: Carrier takes first of three A321neos on lease from AerCap. Azerbaijan Airlines has taken delivery of its first Airbus A321neo, one of three of the larger Airbus narrowbodies the carrier is introducing.
ch-aviation
• Luciano Braganca
By ch-aviation: Atmospherica Aviation (AAN, Prague Václav Havel) has placed an order with Embraer Executive Jets for two additional Phenom 300Es, with delivery scheduled for the second quarter of 2028.
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
By FlightGlobal: Priority 1 Group has leasing and logistics entities and A340 fleet in its portfolio. Provisional liquidators have been appointed to Priority 1 Group, the owner of UK-based freight carrier European Cargo, and are working towards a sale of the business and its assets.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
Reuters
• Julie Zhu, Tim Hepher
The Aviationist
• Stefano D'Urso
