What High-Tech Prizes Does the Downed U.S. Drone Hold? Russia Really Wants to Know
On Tuesday, two Russian fighter jets intercepted a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone flying high above the Black Sea.…
What Can We Do to Make Sure the FAA and Southwest Airlines Fiascos Never Happen Again?
Perhaps unknowingly, airline passengers who lived through the outage of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Notice to Air Systems (NOTAM)…
Sorry, UFO Hunters–You Might Just Be Looking at a Spy Balloon
White House Press Secretary: There is no, again, no, indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity. News Host: Pentagon officials were grilled on…
More Airports to Use Greener ‘Glide’ Approach to Landing
Eleven more U.S. airports plan to adopt a new way of landing planes that reduces both emissions and noise —…
Chinese Spy Balloon Has Unexpected Maneuverability
Pentagon officials announced on Thursday that they had detected a Chinese “surveillance balloon” flying over Montana. On Friday the Pentagon’s…
Space Elevators Are Less Sci-Fi Than You Think
Space elevators are often dismissed as a science fiction dream, but I believe they will exist soon—perhaps in two or…
Satellite Constellations Are an Existential Threat for Astronomy
Astronomer Rachel Street remembers feeling frightened after a recent planning meeting for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The new flagship…
NASA’s Saturn V Rocket, the Moon Rock Box and the Woman Who Made Them Work Properly
What did Yvonne Y. Clark, or Y.Y., actually do as a mechanical engineer? This episode is about the work itself—specifically,…
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NASA’s X-59 Aims to Open The Skies for New Supersonic Airliners
Graphic: Lockheed Martin For almost three decades, the slice of humanity who could afford it had access to supersonic air…