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ViaSat-3 – the second Viasat´s next generation spacecraft

6 October 2025 Jacek Domański

At the end of September 2025, Boeing delivered the second spacecraft in Viasat´s next generation ultra-high-capacity constellation, the ViaSat-3 F2. Coupled with the Boeing 702MP+ platform, the satellite is designed to add more than 1Tbps […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Singapore to acquire four P-8 Poseidon aircraft

14 September 2025 Jacek Domański

On Wednesday, 10th September 2025, the Singaporean government officially announced its decision to acquire four Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft (MPA). The announcement followed a meeting held that day at Pentagon between Chan Chun […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Ghost Bat completed the RAAF tests

8 September 2025 Jacek Domański

In June 2025, four months ahead of schedule, Boeing and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) successfully completed the MQ-28 Ghost Bat test programme. According to the company, the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) proved its […]

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X-37B is back in space

25 August 2025 Jacek Domański

On 21st August 2025, less than six months after concluding its seventh mission, the Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) was again launched into space. Lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the OTV […]

SPACE

Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle set for its eighth mission

4 August 2025 Jacek Domański

Last week, Boeing announced that its X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) is being prepared for its eighth space mission, OTV-8. The vehicle is scheduled to launch from Florida’s Space Coast no earlier than 21st August […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Showcase of new capabilities – two MQ-28s teamed with E-7A Wedgetail

2 July 2025 Jacek Domański

In June of 2025, Boeing and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) carried out first-of-a-kind demonstration of new capabilities by teaming two MQ-28 Ghost Bat uncrewed aircraft with Boeing E-7A Wedgetail airborne early warning and […]

CIVIL AVIATION

Global airliner fleet to reach 50,000 aircraft by 2044

16 June 2025 Jacek Domański

The 2025 Commercial Market Outlook (CMO) forecast, recently released by Boeing, predicts the global fleet to reach approximately 50,000 commercial aircraft by 2044. The company also emphasized that during the upcoming two decades, the air […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Five more MH-47G Block II Chinooks for the US Army Special Operations Aviation Command

31 March 2025 Jacek Domański

Last week, Boeing announced the US Army Special Operations Aviation Command (USASOAC) awarded the company a contract worth 240 million USD to remanufacture five MH-47G Block II Chinook rotorcraft. The deliveries were set to begin […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Seventeen CH-47JA Block II Chinook helicopters for Japan

17 February 2025 Jacek Domański

Since the 1980s, Boeing and Kawasaki delivered more than one hundred Chinooks to the JSDF. The helicopters were manufactured through one of the longest lasting and most successful license manufacturing programmes in Japan. ´This award […]

CIVIL AVIATION

Global air cargo traffic to double by 2043 – Boeing forecast says

20 November 2024 Jacek Domański

In the Boeing´s 2024 World Air Cargo Forecast published recently, the company indicated that air cargo traffic is to double by 2043, due to emerging markets drive growth, boosted by e-commerce and geographically shifted supply […]

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