The Leonardo AW09 helicopter, formerly known as the Kopter SH-09, has completed its first flight with the Safran Helicopter Engines Arriel 2K engine on March 17, 2023. The flight took place at Kopter’s facility in Mollis, Switzerland.
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The Boeing Company has restarted deliveries of its widebody 787 Dreamliner jet after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved its data analysis related to a production issue.
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SpaceX launched two communication satellites for SES, a Luxembourg-based satellite operator, on a Falcon 9 rocket on Friday, March 17, 2023. Earlier they launched a mission that deployed 52 Starlink internet satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
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China has launched a new Earth observation satellite into geostationary orbit on March 17, 2023. The satellite, named Gaofen-13-02, was carried by a Long March 3B rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province at 08:33 UTC.
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On March 14, 2023, a Russian Su-27 fighter jet collided with an unarmed U.S. MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance drone over the Black Sea. The mid-air collision resulted in the loss of the drone.
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Rocket Lab has delivered two satellites for Capella Space, a U.S. company that provides high-resolution radar imagery of Earth, into orbit on 16 March 2023.
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