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Reuters • Sam Tobin, Sarah Young

UK Flights Resume After NATS Air Traffic Control Failure, but Heathrow Faces Further Cancellations

Flights resumed across British airports after a major NATS air traffic control failure, but Heathrow and other hubs warned that disruption would continue. Airlines faced further cancellations and delays as they repositioned aircraft left out of place and worked to restore normal schedules.

Also: New York Times, The Independent and thesouthafrican.com

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2026-09-08T23:36:18.776800-07:00

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Breaking Defense • Breaking Defense Video

What to know about Europe's next-gen fighter programs

By Breaking Defense: FCAS? GCAP? Upgraded Eurofighter Typhoons? The Breaking Defense roundtable walks you through the options on the table.

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2026-09-09T01:20:22.411089-07:00

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TechCrunch • Anna Heim

The Exploration Company nabs $450 million to challenge SpaceX

By TechCrunch: The Exploration Company (TEC) has raised $450 million to build reusable spacecraft, in what it describes as “the largest-ever Series C by a European space company.”.

Also: SpaceWatch Global

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2026-09-08T14:15:18.284918-07:00

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Air Data News • Ricardo Meier

High-speed trains are shrinking China’s market for new airliners

By Air Data News: Airbus cuts 20-year single-aisle forecast by 470 aircraft as rail takes a larger share of China will need fewer new single-aisle aircraft than previously expected as its high-speed rail network continues to compete with domestic flights, according to a revised market forecast from Airbus .

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2026-09-09T01:35:10.680160-07:00

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Payload • Douglas Gorman

Eutelsat Taps Infinite Orbits for GEO Life Extension Mission

By Payload: Eutelsat announced an agreement today tasking the Infinite Orbits with increasing the life span of at least one of its GEO sats.

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2026-09-09T02:06:51.046487-07:00

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FlightGlobal • Dominic Perry

Film star: how Lufthansa Technik is bringing AeroShark coating to A330

By FlightGlobal: Discover Airlines, a Lufthansa subsidiary, has provided an Airbus widebody for the certification campaign, which should conclude later this year.

Air Data News

Lufthansa expands AeroSHARK ‘shark skin’ technology to Airbus A330

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2026-09-09T01:06:05.196214-07:00

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SpaceNews.com • Jeff Foust

International Space Summit to highlight European and global space issues

By SpaceNews.com: A high-level conference organized by the French government on space seeks international consensus on key issue and to bolster Europe’s space efforts.

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2026-09-09T01:36:11.092260-07:00

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FlightGlobal • Alfred Chua

Singapore to gain new air links with Kazakhstan, Egypt

By FlightGlobal: SCAT Airlines and Egyptair announce new flights to Singapore in the coming months. Two carriers have revealed plans to operate to Singapore, boosting the Southeast Asian nation’s international links.

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2026-09-09T01:20:50.974198-07:00

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