Global Editor, Aerospace & Defense at @Reuters
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Joe Brock retweeted
May 26
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Tensions are rising between the Pentagon and SpaceX over multiple issues, including an episode where Elon Musk's company hiked the price of Starlink/Starshield - used to guide strike drones - at the start of the Iran war.
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Joe Brock retweeted
27 Nov 2025
Exclusive: Anduril has touted success on Ukraine's battlefield as it sells its drones to Taiwan and the Pentagon.
But recent drone crashes and setbacks in Ukraine reported by Reuters add more to the story of how Anduril is going. reuters.com/business/aerospa…
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1 Oct 2025
“I’m a warlord now, bitch!” Steve Simoni was a Silicon Valley success story who sold a company to DoorDash. Now he sells an AI-powered machine gun to shoot drones out of the sky. Cracking story from @DavidJeans2 reuters.com/technology/how-s…
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Joe Brock retweeted
20 Aug 2025
Exclusive: Military leaders have said they need autonomous swarms of maritime drones to take on China.
But the Navy's effort to achieve this is under scrutiny following test failures, the firing of a top admiral and a pause on a contract with L3Harris.
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Joe Brock retweeted
11 Feb 2025
New: China is swiftly forging space ties with African nations, and its investments in satellites and infrastructure are winning friends – and expanding its eyes on the skies – as America slashes help for developing countries. W/@ParkSuAm1996 @JoeReuters reuters.com/investigations/c…
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Joe Brock retweeted
11 Feb 2025
China is forming space alliances in Africa to boost its soft power and enhance its ability to spy from orbit. A Reuters Special Report explains reut.rs/3CMeGze @ParkSuAm1996 @joroulette @JoeReuters
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16 Sep 2024
Boeing bosses are staring down the barrel. The twists and turns of the past week paint a picture of managers badly wrong-footed and worryingly out of touch with its factory workers. @Reuters story by me, @ReutersMontreal & @mattmillsphoto #Boeing reuters.com/business/aerospa…
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28 Aug 2024
Breaking: SpaceX's Falcon 9 grounded by FAA after failing landing attempt @SpaceX @elonmusk reuters.com/technology/space…
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23 Aug 2024
SpaceX's attempt at the first ever private spacewalk next week will be a test of trailblazing equipment, including slim spacesuits and a cabin with no airlock, in one of the riskiest missions yet for Elon Musk's space company reuters.com/technology/space…
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23 Aug 2024
Singapore Airlines, British Airways, and Lufthansa have increased their flights over Afghanistan after years of largely avoiding it now the Middle East conflict has made it seem a relatively safe option reuters.com/business/aerospa…
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21 Jun 2024
Exclusive: U.S and China resumed semi-official nuclear arms talks in March for the first time in five years, with Beijing telling U.S. that they would not resort to atomic threats over Taiwan @reuters @mgerrydoyle @GregTorode @lauriechenwords reuters.com/world/us-china-h…
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14 Jun 2024
Boeing finds new flaws in 787 jets. The cause? More than 900 fasteners were being tightened from the wrong side, using the head instead of the associated nut. Scoop from our aero team @timhepher @davidshepardson @ReutersMontreal reuters.com/business/aerospa…
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13 Jun 2024
Don't Panic! It's just a simulation. @NASA freaked out space twitter today when it inadvertently broadcast audio of astronauts treating a commander suffering from decompression sickness on the International @Space_Station
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3 Jun 2024
China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe - named after the mythical Chinese moon goddess - is set to begin its journey back to Earth from the moon's far side after collecting samples that may help answer key questions about the early evolution of the solar system reuters.com/science/chinas-l…
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Joe Brock retweeted
1 Jun 2024
A stream (hopefully with some footage from the far side of the Moon) in just over two hours
1 Jun 2024
About 2h 30min CCTV will have a special livestream of Chang’e 6. More info will be released in that. Live : m.yangshipin.cn/video?type=2…
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2 Jun 2024
China makes historic landing on the far side of the moon reuters.com/technology/space…
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1 Jun 2024
Starliner scrubbed again. It gets worse and worse for Boeing. @Reuters @joroulette #Boeing #Starliner
LIVE: Boeing Starliner capsule's first crewed test flight postponed for at least 24 hours x.com/i/broadcasts/1OdJrjVqV…
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Joe Brock retweeted
1 Jun 2024
Boeing's Starliner capsule set for launch of first crewed space flight reut.rs/3KnQH9R
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Scoop: the harsh reality facing Western countries trying to punish Russia for the war in Ukraine. Big business often doesn’t like it. France’s Macron called Canada’s Justin Trudeau to get @Airbus relief from sanctions on Russian titanium @Reuters story
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Exclusive: French President Emmanuel Macron personally intervened to persuade Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to give Airbus and other aerospace firms relief from sanctions on Russian titanium reut.rs/4aIwxSs
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