Daily Archives: Mar 18, 2026

James Thompson

NASA’s Cargo-Only Starliner Flight Signals Deep Propulsion Troubles

It was a decision that came after a mission that almost ended in disaster: in June 2024, Boeing's CST‑100 Starliner took NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station for what was to have been an eight‑day Crew Flight Test. Instead, the cascading failure of...
Charles Mitchell

8 Strategic Revelations from Ukraine’s Strike on Moscow’s Largest Power Plant

"Energy is the battlefield no one sees until the lights go out." That observation-which predates this conflict by many years-has rarely felt more apt than now. A Ukrainian drone strike that recently hit Shatura Thermal Power Plant-Moscow's largest-demonstrated just how deep-strike capabilities shape the war far from the line...
Charles Mitchell

9 Revelations from the Suspected Russian Tracking Device Discovery

"We see you. We know what you're doing." With that, UK Defence Secretary John Healey underlined a tense maritime standoff that's taken on new urgency. In mid-November, volunteer divers off the Welsh coast recovered what defence experts believe to be a Russian RGB-1A sonobuoy - a specialized acoustic sensor...