Daily Digest

Leveraging Europe’s long-running Lapcat program, Stratofly is taking sustainable hypersonic commercial transport research to the next level.

Boeing’s exit from the Ground-based Strategic Deterrent program leaves the Air Force with Northrop as a lone contractor. We discuss the company’s possible motivation and what it means for the future of the Pentagon’s nuclear program.

Bombardier executives are “pleased with our progress” in transforming the company’s aerospace businesses into a single, business-aviation-focused unit, with both new-aircraft and aftermarket programs coming in “right on plan” through the first six months of the year.

On Sept. 7, India’s second lunar explorer, Chandrayaan-2, is set to touchdown near the Moon's south pole. We take a deeper look at what the mission aims to achieve.