Aerospace & Spaceflight Will NASA and Boeing’s Starliner Fly Again in 2026? David WhitakerJanuary 5, 2026January 5, 20260 “Starliner is working on its redemption arc.” That framing, however informal, captures where Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner now sits within NASA’s…
Aerospace & Spaceflight First 2026 Starlink Launch Puts a New Falcon 9 to Work David WhitakerJanuary 5, 2026January 5, 20260 “Deployment of 29 Starlink satellites confirmed,” SpaceX tweeted on X after launching the first batch of 2026 Starlink spacecraft into…
Drones & Unmanned Systems Deep-Sea Drones Target Narrow Zone in Renewed MH370 Search David WhitakerJanuary 1, 2026January 1, 20260 Can the world’s most sophisticated underwater drones finally crack aviation’s most puzzling mystery? Nearly a decade since Malaysia Airlines flight…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Hubble Reveals Rare Interstellar Comet in Unprecedented Detail David WhitakerDecember 31, 2025December 31, 20250 Indeed, few objects in the cosmos enter our solar system and then, on a single visit, are never to reappear….
Aerospace & Spaceflight Ball Bearings in Microgravity Reveal Particle Behavior for Space and Earth David WhitakerDecember 31, 2025December 31, 20250 Gravity is a bully it pushes particles around so much on Earth that we rarely see their true nature. This…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Rare Downstream View Reveals Interstellar Comet’s Secrets David WhitakerDecember 31, 2025December 31, 20250 The intersection of an interstellar comet through the Solar System is a very rare occurrence but in November 2025 the…
Aerospace & Spaceflight AST’s Giant BlueBird 6 Challenges Starlink in 5G Race David WhitakerDecember 31, 2025December 31, 20250 Bigger isn’t always better-unless it’s a satellite designed to talk directly to your phone from orbit. Texas-based AST SpaceMobile has…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Satellites Built to Survive Reentry Could Protect the Ozone David WhitakerDecember 31, 2025December 31, 20250 “Almost no one is thinking about the environmental impact on the stratosphere,” says Daniel Murphy of NOAA’s Chemical Sciences Laboratory….
Aerospace & Spaceflight LandSpace’s Reusable Rocket Test Marks China’s Bid to Challenge SpaceX David WhitakerDecember 30, 2025December 30, 20250 “They have incorporated elements of Starship, like the use of stainless steel and methalox propellants, into a Falcon 9-based architecture…