NASA Mars Illusions Show How Rover Images Become Real Geology
Mars imagery tends to short-circuit the human mind, making objects such as rocks, hills, or ridges appear as open books,…
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Ukraine Clears Autonomous Interceptor After Kharkiv Combat Testing
According to the Ukrainian authorities, they have developed their first interceptor drone that is able to function in autonomous mode…
Texas 155mm Parts Plant Failure Slows Army Production Ramp
In a report that shines a harsh light on one of the fundamental realities of manufacturing, the Pentagon inspector general…
Air Force One Bridge Switch Shows Retrofit and Schedule Risks
The switch to using an old Air Force One plane for the Turkey-to-Britain leg, where a newer bridge jet was…
Bridge Air Force One Highlights Retrofit Limits and Readiness Tradeoffs
The use of a temporary presidential aircraft has brought into focus a truth, known to any aerospace engineer: the emergency…
Artemis II Reentry Change Validates Orion Heat Shield Strategy
Artemis II’s most important finding may not be the flight around the moon. It may be that NASA has solved…
NATO GlobalEye Choice Resets AWACS Replacement and U.S. Supply Role
NATO’s provisional selection of Saab’s GlobalEye for its next-generation airborne early-warning (AEW) fleet is more than a swap of platforms….
Rocket Launch Boom Could Bring New U.S. Space Constraints
The United States commercial space industry has had an enviable run in the last several years in terms of launching…
Artemis II Astronaut Jeremy Hansen Moves to CSA Reservist Role
Canadian Mission Specialist of NASA’s Artemis II mission, Jeremy Hansen, declared that he will resign from Canadian Space Agency after…
JWST Cosmic Web Survey Expands Deep-Space Mapping Precision
The James Webb Space Telescope is frequently lauded for its breath-taking images, but perhaps it makes an even bigger contribution…
Hubble and JWST Fusion Pushes Earliest Ionizing Light Detection
Astronomers actually managed to make a breakthrough both in terms of the science of cosmology and in the way the…
Why Ukraine Mounts M2 Brownings on Ground Robots
Ukraine’s pairing of the U.S.-manufactured M2 Browning with its unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) is less about innovation than mechanics. The…
US brake-pedal rewrite could reshape robotaxi certification pathways
Some carefully crafted changes to brake rules in the United States would potentially have disproportionate effect on the architecture and…
Interim 747-8 Shows Air Force One Modernization Stopgap at Work
The presentation of the modified Boeing 747-8 aircraft by the United States Air Force at Joint Base Andrews can be…
Portable Armored Bunker Signals Shift in Mobile Shelter Design
There is an interesting portable shelter developed by Parabella and showcased by it at Eurosatory exhibition in Paris that highlights…
Newark Drone Near Miss Highlights Airport Detection and Airspace Enforcement
The suspected near-miss between a United Airlines Boeing 737 and an unknown drone near Newark Liberty International Airport brings back…
Low Texas 777 Pass Puts Freighter Test Discipline Under Scrutiny
The extremely low flyby of a Boeing 777 freighter over Texas that has caused great attention on the Internet not…
Shenlong Object Release Puts Orbital Tracking in the Spotlight
China’s mysterious Shenlong space plane recently released another mystery object into low Earth orbit, providing another data point for one…