Daily Archives: Jul 3, 2026

Charles Mitchell

9 Key Developments in the Ambitious Plan to Rebuild the An-225...

Can the world's largest plane ever actually rise again? When, this February 2022, the Antonov An-225 "Mriya" was reduced to rubble during the Battle of Hostomel, something more than the destruction of an engineering wonder-which had broken records-took place; it was the destruction of a national symbol. The six-engine...
James Thompson

China’s Stranded Astronauts and the Long March-10 Lunar Push

It was shaken to start not by a rocket launch but by a suspected shard of space debris slamming into the Shenzhou-20 return capsule. Three Chinese astronauts, Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui, and Wang Jie, found themselves unexpectedly stranded aboard the Tiangong space station. The incident, occurring just hours before...
Charles Mitchell

9 Revealing Facts That Undercut the Su‑57’s Global Appeal

"Quantity has a quality all its own" goes the old maxim, often attributed to Soviet military thinking. But in the case of Russia's Su‑57 Felon, even quantity has been hard to come by. As Moscow readies a high-profile pitch at the Dubai Airshow 2025, the aircraft's story is one...