Boeing MAX 7 Gains Federal Approval as MAX 10 Finishes Flight Tests
Boeing has cleared two different certification milestones at opposite ends of the 737 MAX family. The Federal Aviation Administration issued…
Infinite Composites Adds Automation for Larger, Faster-Built Space Tanks
Building a large composite propellant tank starts with controlling thousands of meters of reinforcement, resin and barrier material as one…
Onshape Turns Text Prompts Into Reusable CAD Features With Traceable Changes
The useful output of Onshape’s latest artificial-intelligence workflow is not a single piece of generated geometry. It is code that…
FCC Blocks New Foreign-Produced Robots, but Existing Models Stay Authorized
The Federal Communications Commission has drawn a firm market-access line around where a connected mobile robot is produced, but not…
USS Doris Miller Redesign Plan Has No Cost or Revised Schedule
The future USS Doris Miller is now the subject of a potentially extensive systems reversal, but taxpayers and Navy planners…
45 Reaper Drone Losses Reportedly Cut U.S. Fleet by One-Quarter
At least 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones have reportedly been lost during the war with Iran, removing roughly one-quarter of the…
Navy’s Ford-Class Carrier Redesign Review Raises Billion-Dollar Cost, Delay Risks
The Navy is reportedly evaluating whether to move the command tower on future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers farther forward,…
DHS Faces Demands to Explain $464 Million Fleet of Barely Used Aircraft
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security faces a Senate demand to explain why it spent $464 million without competitive bidding…
USS Abraham Lincoln’s 250-Day Deployment Puts Crew Support Under Congressional Scrutiny
A carrier can remain operational while the systems supporting its people come under mounting pressure. That is the tension aboard…
BAE Agrees to $36 Million Settlement Over 104 Alleged Export Violations
BAE Systems has agreed to a $36 million U.S. settlement covering 104 alleged arms-export-control violations by its American subsidiary. Under…
FAA Investigates Two American Airlines Jets Sharing a Radio Identity in Phoenix
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after two American Airlines jets used the same radio call sign and frequency while…
Earth’s Shadow Will Cover 96% of August Moon, Leaving Bright Rim
Sunlight will take an atmospheric detour before reaching the moon on Aug. 27 and 28. As the full moon moves…
Cathay Pacific Radio Error Triggered NATO Interception Despite Working Equipment
A wrong radio-frequency selection aboard Cathay Pacific Flight CX257 caused the Airbus A350 to lose contact with air traffic control…
SpaceX Launches Eight Satellites Supporting Apple SOS, Lands Florida Booster
SpaceX launched eight Globalstar communications satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday night, August 15, then returned the…
NHTSA Data Show Backup-Camera Recalls Covered 21 Million U.S. Cars Since 2018
Approximately 21 million U.S. cars have been covered by backup-camera recalls in the eight years since the systems became mandatory,…
Heart X1’s 27-Minute Flight Moves Megawatt Electric Propulsion Into Piloted Testing
Heart Aerospace has moved its megawatt-class electric propulsion work from ground testing into piloted flight. The company’s full-scale X1 demonstrator…
Genesis GV60 Magma Controls 641 Horsepower With Integrated Torque Allocation
The defining mechanism in the 2027 Genesis GV60 Magma is not its accelerator mapping or synthesized soundtrack. It is a…
NASA Cuts Rocket Thrust Chamber Weight Over 40% by Eliminating Joints
More than 40% is an unusually large mass reduction for mature rocket propulsion hardware. NASA achieved that reported reduction in…