Aerospace & Spaceflight L3Harris 60% Stake Sale Values Rocketdyne Unit at $845M David WhitakerJanuary 6, 2026January 6, 20260 For an industry that treats engine names like family heirlooms, few moves make as loud a statement as the decision…
Aerospace & Spaceflight L3Harris and AE Industrial Set $845 Million Rocketdyne Carve-Out David WhitakerJanuary 6, 2026January 6, 20260 The RL10 is of an age which means that it has seen many generations of launch vehicles come and go,…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Starlink starts “significant reconfiguration” with a 480-kilometer shift David WhitakerJanuary 5, 2026January 5, 20260 “Starlink is beginning a significant reconfiguration of its satellite constellation focused on increasing space safety,” said Michael Nicolls, SpaceX VP…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Starliner Crew Flight Test Slips Again Over Helium Leak David WhitakerJanuary 5, 2026January 5, 20260 Schedules for human spaceflight rarely break because a single part fails utterly. More often, the pace is set by small…
Aerospace & Spaceflight New Glenn readies for a pivotal test… reusability meets orbital logistics David WhitakerJanuary 5, 2026January 5, 20260 “We have rigorously prepared for this initial launch. However, actual flight is irreplaceable experience. Regardless of the outcome, we are…
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…
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…