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A drone incursion over Moldova delayed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s scheduled flight from Chisinau to Oslo after authorities closed the country’s airspace. Separate reports said a drone came close to the aircraft during takeoff, underscoring the operational and security risks posed by drones near high-profile flights.
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A drone incursion over Moldova delayed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s scheduled flight from Chisinau to Oslo after authorities closed the country’s airspace. Separate reports said a drone came close to the aircraft during takeoff, underscoring the operational and security risks posed by drones near high-profile flights.
The inaugural International Space Summit in Paris produced 51 announcements, including the first detailed look at the IRIS² low-Earth-orbit architecture. Former ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet was also named commander of Vast’s PAM-6 commercial mission to the International Space Station.
Two Belarusian nationals and a Lithuanian company they controlled were convicted of fraudulently obtaining European Union funding to develop high-precision satellite-navigation receivers. The case highlights legal and oversight risks surrounding publicly funded European space-technology development and procurement.
Fractional aviation growth is helping offset softer demand in North America, according to Argus, while Europe recorded its second consecutive year-over-year decline. The diverging regional performance highlights uneven conditions across the business aviation market and the importance of fleet and capacity decisions by geography.
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NASA has added Relativity Space’s Terran R to its NLS II launch-services contract, making the vehicle eligible for future agency missions. Separately, Amazon agreed to purchase six additional Ariane 6 launches, while ICEYE and Arianespace will evaluate the rocket for sovereign synthetic-aperture radar missions.
Elbe Flugzeugwerke will provide direct NH90 maintenance support to the German armed forces under a seven-year agreement, marking the Dresden-based MRO provider’s first contract with the Bundeswehr. The deal expands EFW’s role beyond its established commercial aircraft maintenance activities into military helicopter sustainment.
The United States has finalized a $4 billion military financing loan for Poland. Warsaw has not disclosed how the funds will be allocated, but the financing could support the acquisition of 32 additional F-35s tied to Poland’s air-superiority requirements.
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Cailabs is introducing shared optical ground-station infrastructure, while ICEYE and Arianespace will evaluate Ariane 6 for sovereign SAR missions. Poland’s EYCORE has released initial imagery from its first SAR satellite, and BAE Systems and the Space Force completed a critical design review for Epoch 2 missile-warning satellites.
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