Starlink Almost Had An In-Orbit Collision With A Chinese-Launched Satellite, And It's Only Getting Worse From Here
In space terms, they basically high-fived. It could have been so much worse.
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Pentagon Catches Up To Iran In Drone Arms Race By Just Copying It
The United States military, the best funded armed force in the world, is in a desperate race to catch up to the technological powerhouse... Iran?
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Space Force Uses Magic: The Gathering-Style Cards To Announce The War Names For Its Satellites
You've really got to see the cards to believe them.
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FAA Chooses Defense Company Without Civilian Flight Experience To Overhaul Air Traffic Control
According to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Peraton won out by submitting an "innovative approach" that would accelerate the timeline if successful.
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Satellite Constellations May Ruin Up To 96% Of Astronomy Pictures Even From Telescopes In Space
NASA's report, published in Nature, predicts that around 40% of all Hubble images will have at least one satellite streak in them.
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Air India Totally Forgot It Owned A Plane, Now Owes 13 Years Of Parking Fees
Ever forget that you own an entire cargo airliner, leaving it to rust in a corner of an airport racking up 13 years of parking fees? We've all been there!
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Congress Proposes A New Space Agency, The National Institute For Space Research
This bill is a good first step at a course correction, but at the end of the day, a race can only be won if you choose to win it.
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The Plan To Replace The Military's Radar Plane Keeps Falling Apart
The Boeing E-3 AWACS has been the quarterback of the skies for nearly 50 years, a flying radar station able to detect enemy planes and missiles.
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Paying For A Window Seat Doesn't Guarantee A Window, And Airlines Say That's Fine
Cclass action lawsuits are being brought against United Airlines and Delta Air Lines for false promises.
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NASA Scales Back Missions With Boeing's Starliner After Last Year's Astronaut Stranding
Despite it all, the Starliner capsule pushes onwards. It ought to be putting astronauts on the ISS again in the next few years.
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Maybe We Should Pay Air Traffic Controllers During A Shutdown, Says Congress
In the meantime, what about the poor ATCs who just suffered their way through the longest shutdown in history?
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Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket Completes First Mission, Begins Direct Competition With SpaceX
The mission involved delivering a real (not test) payload into low-Earth orbit and then landing its first-stage rocket on a drone boat.
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Boeing Machinist Union Ends Three-Month Strike, Can Start Making Fighter Jets Again
Union members at Boeing's St Louis factories voted to end the second-longest strike in its history, which hobbled production of the Pentagon's air fleet.
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So It Turns Out Most Satellites Don't Encrypt Your Data, And Anyone Can Listen In
That is, in technical terms, very bad.
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The U.S. Army Wants To Buy One Million Drones In The Next Three Years (And Keep It Going)
The Army revealed its public-private pilot program to turn the U.S. into a drone manufacturing giant, called SkyFoundry.
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Google Is Considering Putting AI Data Centers Into Space
Google's parent company Alphabet has already put the robots on your streets with Waymo, but that clearly wasn't ambitious enough.
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Tried To Buy 737s From Bankrupt Spirit Airlines That It Didn't Own And Also Didn't Have Engines
Fresh from spending $200 million taxpayer dollars on private jets in the middle of a government shutdown, Noem was also looking for ICE to purchase ten 737s.
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Florida Man Defrauds Investors To Buy Boeing 737s, Pockets Lots Of The Cash For Himself
Joshua Wander, an investor in budget airlines Flair and Bonza, told his lenders that he was going to buy 134 of the 737 MAX, but he only ended up getting 38.
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Judge Allows DOJ To Drop Criminal Charges Against Boeing Over Fatal Crashes, Case Dismissed
Despite the judge's clear disdain for the DOJ's decision, he concluded that he didn't have the authority to overrule it.
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Experimental 'Quiet' Supersonic Prototype Achieves First Flight
Commercial supersonic travel just got one step closer to reality.
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Peter Thiel-Funded War Drone Demonstration Goes Up In Flames (Literally)
All the drones missed, and one even managed to light its battery on fire and completely burn up.
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NASA Has Been Implementing Huge Budget Cuts That Congress Might Not Actually Make
It's hard to see exactly what the goal is here; one might argue that it seems to be chaos for chaos' sake.
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Are 22 Air Traffic Control Shortages In One Day Bad?
So, how exactly are air traffic controllers, who were barely holding it together already, faring during the government shutdown? Turns out, not great!
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Pan Am Could Fly Again
The current owner, appropriately called Pan Am Global Holdings, believes it can break the curse and return the white and blue livery to glory.
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NASA Will Re-Open Contract For Moon Lander As Starship Falls Behind Schedule
The Artemis III mission is scheduled for a 2027 launch. Starship currently seems unlikely to meet that timeframe.
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SpaceX Has Now Sent 10,000 Starlink Satellites Into Space
The Starlink constellation now accounts for two-thirds of all working satellites.
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Starlink's Military Twin Is Stepping On Civilian Satellite Control
This was all discovered quite by accident by an amateur satellite tracker.
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