[email protected]: Standing down from tomorrow's launch of Starlink due to severe weather in the recovery area, which is likely to persist for a couple days. Will announce a new target launch date once confirmed
7 month agoFire at the airport transformer station
7 month agoExercise #AstralKnight 2020 kicked off today – it is a joint and multinational integrated air and missile defense exercise.
7 month agoThe two Bear Fs continued tracking south over the North Sea, closely shadowed by @RoyalAirForce Typhoons. While their every move is monitored, there are serious flight safety implications for the Bears flying in this area
7 month agoQRA Typhoons were scrambled from Leuchars Station in Fife, and routed to intercept the two aircraft. mag They were identified as two Russian Air Force Tu-142 Bear F. These are Anti-Submarine Warfare and Maritime Patrol aircraft
7 month agoQuick Reaction Alert scrambles over the space of days, intercepted & shadowed 2 Russian Tu-142 Bear Fs.
RuAF Su-27 intercepted U.S. P8A Poseidon over Baltic Sea
[email protected]: Standing down from today's Starlink launch due to recovery issue; vehicle and payload remain healthy. Next launch opportunity is tomorrow, September 18 at 1:57 p.m. EDT, but we are keeping an eye on weather
7 month agoVideo: A B-52H Stratofortress, assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, is escorted by Ukrainian Air Force aircraft over Ukraine during a Bomber Task Force Europe Mission Sep 14, 2020.
Source from Beirut Airport confirms that fire was caused by malfunction of an electricity generator belonging to Middle East Airlines. It is under control
7 month agoSmoke rises from Beirut airport
[email protected]: Targeting September 17 at 2:19 p.m. EDT for Falcon 9 launch of 60 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 39A
[email protected]: A fairing half supporting this mission previously supported Starlink missions in May 2019 and March 2020
7 month agoDefense Secretary Esper says China and Russia have turned space into a "war fighting domain" & it is no longer a "peaceful arena." "They have weaponized space through killer satellites
Saudi Civil Aviation Authority: All the Kingdom's airports are ready to operate flights
OIR Spokesman: correction to an earlier statement: Initial reports reflected a Coalition AH-64 Apache Helicopter conducted an emergency landing in N Syria earlier today. After further investigation, it was determined the helicopter conducted a precautionary landing.
U.S. military helicopter crew rescued in northern Syria after making emergency landing Tuesday morning. The helicopter "landed safely" and was not brought down by "hostile activity." No injuries to crew: statement
7 month agoB-52H Stratofortress, assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, is escorted by Ukrainian Air Force aircraft over Ukraine during a Bomber Task Force Europe Mission Sep 14, 2020. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Burt Traynor)
A coalition helicopter conducted an emergency landing in Northern Syria. The incident was not the result of hostile activity and the helicopter landed safely. Emergency personnel responded to the incident and there were no injuries to crewmembers - @OIRSpox
The Washington-led coalition denies the fall of an American helicopter in Al-Hasakah, Syria
Coalition and SDF deny the fall of US Helicopter in northeastern Syria
7 month agoChina conducted its second seaborne space launch early Tuesday morning, with a Long March-11 solid propellant light launch vehicle lifting off from a mobile floating platform in the Yellow Sea
7 month agoVideo of China's launch of 9 satellites today aboard a Long March 11H rocket, launched from a mobile sea platform..
7 month agoQuick Reaction Alert Typhoons were scrambled today from their temporary base at Leuchars Station in Fife. This was in response to Russian military aircraft operating in international airspace, but within @NATO's Air Policing Area.
Astronomers say they have found a chemical signature of phosphine, a gas associated with life, in Venus's clouds. On Earth, phosphine is found at the bottom of ponds, in badger guts and in penguin guano
President Trump looks forward to discussing the US sale of F-35 stealth fighter jets to the UAE with PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Jared Kushner just briefed Israeli journalists in Washington, DC
7 month agoIndian Air Force An-32RE just declared an emergency (7700) and is currently burning off fuel before making an emergency landing at Ghaziabad airport
Hand glider crashed, pilot killed at sport event near Simferopol
7 month ago2 killed after plane crashes in Los Angeles parking lot 6961 N Hayvenhurst Ave
The payload of this KZ-1A is 吉林一号 高分02C星 or Jilin-1 Gao Fen 02C for the Changuang Satellite commercial imaging company. It has the alternate name 内蒙古一号卫星 (Neimonggol 1, or Inner Mongolia 1)