Aerospace & Spaceflight NASA Lost Contact With a Key Mars Orbiter for Good David WhitakerJune 4, 2026June 4, 20260 What happens to a space agency if a spacecraft goes behind a planet and won’t come back out? After a…
Aerospace & Spaceflight NASA’s Roman Telescope Cleared a Final Mirror Test With Bigger Stakes Than Hubble David WhitakerJune 4, 2026June 4, 20260 On a surface flatter than dust can show can be up or down a space telescope. This was not just…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Neil Armstrong’s Lost Spaceplane Points to Today’s Secret Orbital Race David WhitakerJune 4, 2026June 4, 20260 When the hardware is in place, pilots have been selected, and it feels like it just couldn’t happen in its…
Aerospace & Spaceflight America Hit Mach 9.6, Then Shelved the Mach 15 Follow-Up David WhitakerJune 4, 2026June 4, 20260 “Scramjet-powered vehicles are envisioned to operate at speeds up to at least Mach 15,” NASA said after this program for…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Why America’s Mach 3 Valkyrie Never Became a Real Bomber David WhitakerJune 3, 2026June 3, 20260 What if you design an aircraft that can’t be outwitted or outrun in the sky, but the sky changes before…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Why 4,000 Missiles Still Couldn’t Stop the SR-71 David WhitakerJune 3, 2026June 9, 20260 When getting a glimpse of a missile attack, one of the most bizarre engagement strategies of the SR-71 Blackbird was…
Drones & Unmanned Systems SkyeBrowse Turns Drone Models Into Clickable Walkthroughs for Faster Decisions David WhitakerJune 3, 2026June 3, 20260 How does any 3D CAD model benefit if the users are still making an educated guess on what they are…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Alien Planet Winds Hit 15,000 MPH and Expose Hidden Magnetic Shields David WhitakerJune 3, 2026June 3, 20260 How is an invisible magnetic field observed around a planet, so far away that it is several tens or hundreds…
Aerospace & Spaceflight FAA Grounds Starship After Booster Burn Fails Mid-Descent David WhitakerJune 2, 2026June 2, 20260 The new delay for Starship isn’t really another test test just because the starship has left the realm of being…