Partners Fund 68% of Lockheed’s $43.7 Million F-35 Threat-Data Lab Upgrade
International partners are supplying roughly 68% of a $43.7 million Lockheed Martin award to upgrade the ground laboratories that build…
Aerospace & Spaceflight
US Army Rocket Redirects After Launch, Hits Moving Target at White Sands
A rocket normally begins its flight with a destination already loaded. In a recent test, however, a U.S. Army Guided…
Pentagon Image Reveals Shenlong’s Apparent Cargo Bay After Four Missions
A newly published Pentagon assessment provides the clearest public orbital image yet of Shenlong, China’s secretive uncrewed space plane. The…
Russia’s 24,000-Ton Generalissimo Suvorov Submarine Fires 5,160-Mile Missile Underwater
Twenty-four thousand metric tons is the submerged displacement behind Russia’s latest long-range missile exercise. The nuclear-powered Generalissimo Suvorov submarine fired…
SpaceX Lines Up $40 Billion for AI Processors Arriving in 2027
SpaceX says it has secured $40 billion in debt financing primarily for artificial-intelligence processors, but the hardware itself is not…
Ethiopia Receives Su-35 Fighters, but 12-Aircraft Fleet’s Origin Is Unclear
Ethiopia has begun receiving Russian Su-35 fighters, but the available public statements point to two aircraft delivered not 12 already…
Poland Approves Two MiG-29s for Ukraine, but Only One Can Fly
Poland has approved two MiG-29 fighters for Ukraine, but the transfer is expected to produce only one additional flyable aircraft….
Hubble Shows Comet 41P Reversed Its Spin and May Break Apart
Archived Hubble Space Telescope images show that Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák stopped rotating in its original direction and began spinning backward. The…
Earth-Sized Telescope Measures Wind-Bent Cygnus X-1 Jets at 10,000 Suns’ Power
A stellar wind supplied the measuring tool. As jets streamed from the black hole in Cygnus X-1, wind from its…
Taiwan Says 66-Fighter F-16V Schedule at Risk as Two Weapons Slip to 2028
Taiwan has funded 66 new F-16V fighters and received the first two, but it still cannot count on completing the…
Former Air Force Vice Chief Says Tejas Mk-2 May Miss Frontline Window
India’s Tejas Mk-2 could arrive after its value as a frontline fighter has substantially faded, according to recently retired Indian…
Project Orion’s 4,000-Ton Spacecraft Would Have Needed 800 Nuclear Explosions for Orbit
Eight hundred nuclear explosions were calculated to put one Project Orion spacecraft into Earth orbit. The proposed vehicle weighed 4,000…
Ethiopia Gets Two Russian Su-35 Fighters Early, With 10 More Planned
Russia has delivered Ethiopia’s first two Su-35 fighters a year ahead of schedule, opening a planned acquisition of 12 aircraft….
James Webb Finds Most Distant Ring Galaxy, but Collision Case Remains Open
The James Webb Space Telescope has identified the most distant known ring galaxy, seen as it appeared only 2.1 billion…
Ukraine Restores Starshield Access, but Delayed Patriot Missiles Leave Wider Gaps
Ukraine has restored full access to Starshield, removing a reported satellite-connectivity constraint that had disrupted some interceptor-drone operations. But the…
SpaceX Pushes California Past Florida With Record 72 Rocket Launches
California has overtaken Florida in annual rocket launches for the first time since the 1970s, driven by SpaceX’s decision to…
Verizon Says Starlink Mobile Needs $500 Billion; Musk Says Three Years
Starlink Mobile’s proposed transformation into a full U.S. wireless carrier has produced two sharply different estimates. Verizon CEO Dan Schulman…
Space Force Shifts Six Vulcan Missions to SpaceX During Defense Grounding
The U.S. Space Force has shifted six near-term national-security launches from United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur to SpaceX while Vulcan…