Daily Archives: Mar 18, 2026

What is the costliest thing ever produced by humankind? A skyscraper or an aircraft carrier does not begin to approach the answer. It is a football field-sized laboratory orbiting 400 km above our surface: the International Space Station, or ISS. This orbiting laboratory has been occupied for 25 years...

It began with a thunderous roar from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India, and today it ends with a 6,100 kilogram "engineering marvel" orbiting 323 miles above the Earth’s surface as BlueBird 6, the new satellite from AST SpaceMobile that has shattered the barriers to what is possible...

In one of the most eventful nights of aerial battles over the past few weeks, Ukraine’s F-16s successfully downed Russian cruise missiles with a level of success that was almost perfect. Thirty-four out of a total of 35 cruise missiles targetting Ukraine were intercepted before reaching their destination on...