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…
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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…
S301’s 8.7-Year Orbit Could Measure the Milky Way Black Hole’s Spin
Eight-point-seven years is the number that makes S301 unusually valuable. That is how long the faint star takes to circle…
GM’s 30-Vehicle Bolt Batches Cut Paint Changes and Simplify Assembly
A vehicle paint shop pays a production penalty whenever it changes colors: equipment must be purged and cleaned before the…