Reuters
The Nimitz-class USS Abraham Lincoln and accompanying Carrier Strike Group 3 units departed Thailand after a five-day port visit, ending a respite during an extended deployment that included operations in the Middle East. The carrier had arrived after 286 days at sea.
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• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — A Rocket Lab spacecraft used an optical payload developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to track another satellite during a U.S.
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By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is starting work on a new ground control architecture for its future GPS constellation, applying lessons from the $6.27 billion OCX program that the Pentagon canceled earlier this year after 15 years of development.
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• Shelby Holliday
By Wall Street Journal: military said it struck three Iranian oil tankers on Saturday after Iran launched ballistic missiles toward two Navy warships, including an aircraft carrier, as the fight to assert control over the Strait of Hormuz intensifies.
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By Reuters: A Greek two-seat F-4 Phantom fighter jet crashed on Saturday during an air show at Tanagra air base north of Athens, killing the pilots, two officials told Reuters.
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• Jack Daleo
By Flying Magazine: EC-130H’s ‘compass call’ mission systems will be transitioned to a fleet of modified Gulfstream business jets.
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• Gabriele Steinhauser, Mike Cherney
By Wall Street Journal: PATTAYA, Thailand—When the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and one of its destroyers docked in Thailand earlier this week, it was a welcome relief for thousands of sailors whose record-setting deployment in the Middle East drew controversy over reports of deteriorating conditions on board.
Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
By Air Data News: The two Boeing 747-8s being converted into the next US presidential aircraft have required extensive structural repairs because of a manufacturing problem affecting the type, adding more work to a VC-25B program already delayed by several years.
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