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| | | Advertisement | | | | Zipline’s Digital Journey – saving lives is what this drone start-up is all about. Zipline is a California-based company transforming the way medical deliveries are made to remote or hard-to-reach areas. This is made possible by the digitalization of autonomous drones that airdrop medical supplies – Watch the video. |
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| SpaceX Demo-2 Flight Test Ends With Crew Splashdown | Irene Klotz
SpaceX ended its first crewed spaceflight — a two-month test run to the International Space Station — on Aug. 2 with a successful parachute splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. |
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| On-Demand Webinar: Top Defense Aircraft Competition | | From the U.S. quest to replace its Apache helicopters to India’s effort to replenish its air force fighter and naval rotorcraft fleets, every corner of the globe is looking for new military aircraft. Aviation Week editors highlight top defense contests and discuss how they will be impacted by the COVID pandemic and whether the fortunes of companies may rise or fall based on the outcomes. |
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| | | Supplier Pressure | | The Defense supply chain is under new pressures. With Covid-19 resizing the commercial aviation sector, many defense-related suppliers are seeing their business models challenged like never before. Meanwhile, new cybersecurity requirements are taking hold while defense providers watch future budget pressures weigh on Pentagon's spending plans. A panel of industry leaders at the upcoming DefenseChain Conference will review the state of change and how these challenges are affecting the supply chain. | | |
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| The Week In Technology | Graham Warwick
Swiss eVTOL demo; EASA advances AI; suborbital spaceplane; AeroTEC advances electric; EHang expands; and Sunglider flies higher. |
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