ch-aviation
• Armin Kific
Airbus recorded 59 net new orders in June 2026, adding to its order flow during a period of ongoing demand competition across single-aisle and widebody segments. The figure offers a timely datapoint for tracking Airbus’s commercial backlog trajectory into the second half of the year.
The Hill
• Filip Timotija
By The Hill: The Pentagon barred the release of a watchdog report on the F-35 program, highlighting rising costs and low readiness within the expensive military spending project.
AeroTime
• Stephen Pope
By AeroTime: NASA astronaut Anil Menon launched aboard Soyuz MS-29 with two Russian cosmonauts as the heads of NASA and Roscosmos attended.
ch-aviation
• Dirk Andrei Salcedo
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Wall Street Journal
• Andrew Tangel
By Wall Street Journal: Key air-traffic facility faces looming exodus of controllers and recent technology outages.
Bloomberg
• Danny Lee, Yian Lee
By Bloomberg: Asian airlines are the latest beneficiaries of growing demand for AI servers and computer chips, creating a windfall that’s helping mitigate the surge in jet fuel costs.
Bloomberg
• Hannah Miller
By Bloomberg: The New York Times refused to let its reporters testify in front of a federal grand jury after they were subpoenaed by the Trump administration over a story about security issues with an Air Force One plane donated by Qatar.
Bloomberg
• Sri Taylor
By Bloomberg: United Airlines Holdings Inc. expects resilient travel demand to drive up its full-year profit, even in the face of soaring fuel costs that sapped the US airline’s outlook for the current quarter.
Reuters
• Allison Lampert, Tim Hepher
DefenseNews.com
• Michael Scanlon
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
NASA Spaceflight
• Martin Smith
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
SpaceNews.com
• Commercial Space Federation
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
