The Era Of Air Taxis Cometh As FAA Approves Eight Test Programs Across 26 States
Even if the initial tests go well, there may be a lot of turbulence ahead.
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Senate Lays Out Its Biggest Plans For NASA In Years, Accelerating Moon Race And Delaying ISS Termination
For a while, NASA's future looked to be on shaky ground, but this new proposal seems like a fresh vote of confidence.
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Boeing 737 Is Clearly A Secret Drug Lord, Takes A Bullet During A Flight To Medellin From Miami
The bullet hole was found on the aileron of the right wing, with the telltale signs of a clean entry hole and a more damaged exit hole.
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Freedom Plane Celebrates America's 250th Birthday By Bringing Founding-Era Documents To You
These documents are normally stored in secured vaults and not on display at all, so this is a treat we're all getting for America's Semiquincentennial.
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Mars Rover Finally Gets Martian GPS (Sort Of), One Step Closer To Autonomous Planetary Exploration
Just like the Scarecrow of Oz, it turns out the rover was smart all along, it just didn't realize!
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Drone Wars, Episode II: Clone Of The Attack (Of Military Lasers Against The Wrong Targets In El Paso Airspace, Again)
The FAA is clearly furious at the way the military is using lasers right now.
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NASA Slows Down To Speed Up Moon Landing Plans, Will Now Actually Test Lunar Landers Before Using Them
The changes announced today are very welcome news and put the agency in a much better position to successfully land without killing any astronauts.
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House Republicans Strike Down Ted Cruz's Aviation Safety Bill To Prevent The Next Potomac Crash
The whole ordeal is a showcase of how hard it is to pass meaningful legislation even in the face of catastrophe.
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NASA Officially Classifies Boeing Starliner Failure As A Maximum-Level Type A Mishap
Despite it all, NASA doesn't want to give up on Boeing, and the Starliner project is moving ahead in a reduced capacity.
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SpaceX Comes Up With Yet Another New Business Model, Privatized Space Traffic Control
Starlink has been in a closed beta of this system with other operators, and now, it's opening up to any other operator who wants it, for free. Well, "free."
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American Airlines Is In Such Dire Shape That Unions Want To Oust Its Leadership
Since American has a profit-sharing system with its employees, poor overall performance means smaller take-home pay.
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NASA Finds Building Blocks Of Life On Frozen Asteroid
The universe might have far more amino acids lying around than we realized, which gives life itself far more chances to begin.
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FAA Shuts Down El Paso International Airport For 10 Days, Except It's Already Open Again, Because The Army Fired Lasers Against Mexican Cartel Drones, Except There Weren't Any
Everything's going just fine in the most powerful country on Earth, why do you ask?
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NASA Will Let Artemis Astronauts Bring Smartphones To Take Moon Selfies
What smartphones do the astronauts actually use? Are these Android users or Apple stans?
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SpaceX Kicks Russian Soldiers Off Of Starlink
Underneath all this are two facts: modern warfare depends on space, and one company (and really, one man) dominates that domain at the moment.
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Blue Origin Is Changing Trajectory To Compete In Earth Orbit And On The Moon
It won't just be a way for celebrities to go on a star safari anymore: it's ready to get deeply involved in the orbital economy.
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Now It's A MechaSpace Race: China Wants To Put AI Data Centers In Space, Too
This combines two of the most important races the countries are engaged in, the space race and the AI race.
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After November Crash, UPS Sends All Of Its Ancient MD-11 Planes Into Not-So-Early Retirement
These elderly aircraft were already slated to be pulled out of the air in the next few years anyway; it's now obvious that they should have been pulled already.
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Two F-15s Refuse To Retire, Join NASA's Quesst For Civilian Supersonic Instead
Not content to watch these young whippersnapper planes take all the glory, the F-15s will be kitted out with sensory and data collection gear.
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It Wasn't The Pilots: NTSB Says The Black Hawk-Airliner Crash Was Due To FAA Failures
The NTSB accuses the FAA of a wide range of mistakes, both in the long, intermediate, and immediate term before the crash.
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Blue Origin Plans TeraWave Satellite Internet Service 6,000 Times Faster Than Starlink Will Be
That amazing improvement will come courtesy of two major departures from Starlink's model.
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Congress Saves NASA From Trump's Proposed Budget Cuts, Fully Funds Agency And Its Science Missions
Did we avert the crisis? Getting funding again is nice, but a lot of damage has already been done.
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Government Realizes That Throwing Money At Air Traffic Control Is A Good Idea, Funds More Hiring And Pay Raises
That 3.8% raise for air traffic controllers is strangely conditional: the FAA administrator gets to decide whether or not to pay it out,
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Boeing Knew About The UPS Plane's Problem Long Before The Fatal Crash In November
Unfortunately, we're going to continue seeing aging aircraft in our skies for a long while.
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China Just Applied To Launch 200,000 Satellites, Over Ten Times More Than Even Exist Right Now
It won't be long until the night (and day!) sky is covered with satellites, which will be a whole new world for us here on Earth.
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Boeing Finally Overtakes Airbus In Annual Sales Again
Boeing seems to finally be pulling out of its years-long nosedive.
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