Air Force Seeks Six DJI Drones for Nuclear-Base Security Training
The U.S. Air Force is seeking six refurbished, Chinese-made DJI quadcopters for realistic security training at F.E. Warren Air Force…
NASA Starling Navigates Without GPS Using Existing Star-Tracker Cameras
A star tracker normally answers a spacecraft’s attitude question: Which way am I pointing? NASA’s Starling mission has now used…
U.S. Has Under 830 Patriot and 280 THAAD Missiles, Rebuild Takes Years
Money can authorize more missiles, but it cannot make propulsion systems, specialized components and trained production workers appear immediately. That…
LandSpace Lands ZhuQue-3 Booster After Failure, Delivers Satellite to Orbit
China’s LandSpace delivered the Honghu 03 satellite to orbit and brought the ZhuQue-3 Y2 first stage down on land on…
NASA Saves 10 Watts on Voyager 2, Potentially Extending Mission Into 2031
Ten watts may buy Voyager 2 roughly two more years in interstellar space. NASA engineers have reduced the probe’s electrical…
Starlink Activates Free Wildfire Texting in Spain, Not Calls or Internet
Starlink has activated free satellite texting for eligible Movistar and MasOrange customers after wildfires damaged terrestrial communications in parts of…
S301 Reaches 25,000 Kilometers Per Second, Could Reveal Black Hole’s Spin
At roughly 25,000 kilometers per second, S301 is the fastest star reported in the Milky Way. That peak velocity more…
Clemson’s 1,700-Cell Solar EV Shows Modeled Surplus, Not Road-Test Proof
Deep Orange 17 starts with an unusual systems decision: Its solar bodywork is part of the propulsion-energy strategy, not merely…
Canadian Judge Keeps Volga-Dnepr An-124 Grounded as Parking Bill Tops $1 Million
A sanctioned Volga-Dnepr Airlines Antonov An-124 remains grounded at Toronto Pearson Airport after a Canadian federal judge refused to lift…
FAA Investigates Minneapolis Outage as Ten-State Disruptions Outlast System Restoration
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a temporary outage at a Minneapolis-area air traffic control facility that led to ground…
UC San Diego’s $22.9 Million Clot-Removal Robot Grows From Its Tip
The proposed clot-removal robot does not move through an artery by pushing a catheter’s full length forward from outside the…
UL Tests Find Similar Fire Output, but EV Packs Obstruct Cooling Access
Electric vehicles and conventional vehicles produced broadly similar fire output in full-scale UL testing, but the comparison changed once crews…
California Energy Commission Approves 2029 Tire Rules Amid Price, Choice Concerns
California has approved a measurable reduction in the energy lost through replacement tires, but the cost of achieving it remains…
U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Heads Below Operating Floor at 243 Million Barrels
The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve can still contain hundreds of millions of barrels and yet become less effective as an…
SpaceX Now Operates Nearly Two-Thirds of Active Satellites, Raising Traffic Demands
10,365 out of 15,711. Those figures, reported for June 2026 by French orbital-monitoring company Look Up, put SpaceX’s Starlink network…
Qantas A380 Flew Twice With Maintenance Lamp Left Inside Its Wing
A Qantas Airbus A380 completed two long-haul passenger flights with a portable maintenance lamp inside its left wing. The aircraft…
Army Shelves 10,000 Microsoft-Derived Headsets After $1.8 Billion Investment
The U.S. Army has determined that none of the 10,000 Integrated Visual Augmentation System headsets developed and procured from 2018…
NASA Ends Swift Telescope Rescue After Servicing Spacecraft Loses Attitude Control
The spacecraft sent to stabilize NASA’s Swift observatory could not reliably stabilize itself. NASA ended the planned capture and orbital…