The Aviationist

Talon IQ Testbed Performs Simulated Combat Maneuvers Controlled by Hivemind and Prism AIs

The Talon IQ testbed conducted combat air patrol and target engagement maneuvers controlled by ShieldAI’s Hivemind AI, before switching back to Northrop ...
CNBC

How China is challenging the U.S. to become the next great space power

In 2025, China set a national record for orbital launches in a single year with over 90 launches. Chinese investment in its commercial space sector, including from private and government sources, ...
Yahoo

Russian planes escorted out of air space near Alaska

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NORAD detected and escorted five Russian military planes from airspace near Alaska Thursday. Two of the planes were Russian Su-35s ...
The Hill

Iran’s space program is a problem and an opportunity

Recently, Iran launched three Earth observation satellites as part of a ride-share arrangement on a Russian Soyuz rocket. The mission was the latest for the Iranian space program, ostensibly civilian ...
Ars Technica

Here’s why Blue Origin just ended its suborbital space tourism program

Blue Origin has “paused” its New Shepard program for the next two years, a move that likely signals a permanent end to the suborbital space tourism initiative. The small rocket and capsule have been ...
Ars Technica

Do you have ideas about how to improve America’s space program?

Over the first quarter of the 21st century, two major trends have transformed the global space industry. The first is the rapid rise of China’s space program, which only flew its first human to orbit ...
The Conversation

NASA’s Artemis II crewed mission to the Moon shows how US space strategy has changed since Apollo – and contrasts with China’s closed program

Michelle L.D. Hanlon is affiliated with For All Moonkind, Inc. a non-profit organization focused on protecting human cultural heritage in outer space. When Apollo 13 looped around the Moon in April ...
The New York Times

Trump’s NASA Pick Is Confirmed to Lead Space Program in Peril

Jared Isaacman, the billionaire nominated twice to lead the agency, may draw some lessons from the tenure of another NASA leader in the 1990s. By Kenneth Chang After 11 months of tumult and downsizing ...
CNN

Air Force purchasing two 747-8 planes from Lufthansa to support future Air Force One program

The US Air Force announced plans Tuesday to purchase two Boeing 747-8 aircraft to support its future presidential airlift program, with an Air Force official confirming it would acquire the planes ...
Space.com

'Kitten Space Agency' is the spiritual successor to 'Kerbal Space Program', and they have an ex-SpaceX engineer on the team (interview)

DayZ and Kerbal Space Program's creators have joined forces with an ex-SpaceX engineer to create the ultimate spaceflight simulator. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
PCGamesN

The Kitten Space Agency pre-alpha is live, and Kerbal Space Program's spiritual successor is already "much more than a tech demo"

The first Kitten Space Agency pre-alpha has arrived, and you can try it for free right now. Its name is no coincidence; it's a bold play from Dean Hall, founder of developer RocketWerkz and the ...
Futurism

New Report Finds That China’s Space Program Is Rapidly Outstripping NASA

While the sitting US government strips NASA of its expert leadership and funding, it seems China is more than happy to take up the mantle. A new report from the Commercial Space Federation, a lobbying ...