Air traffic controllers in Washington and the pilots of President Trump’s helicopter met to discuss communication issues one week before a jet was allowed to take off just as Marine One left the White House, federal investigators said Thursday. Controllers reported not receiving the standard three-minute warning call ahead of Marine One flights and both…
The mission to save NASA’s sinking Swift Observatory was called off Wednesday, dooming the telescope to a fiery reentry later this year. NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies announced the news more than a month after the startup’s Link spacecraft rocketed away to the telescope’s rescue. Katalyst said Link will not attempt to capture Swift and…
The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration are looking into why airport traffic wasn’t halted when Marine One departed the White House Tuesday afternoon with President Trump on board. After the fatal midair collision at Washington’s Reagan National Airport between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet in January 2025,…
SpaceX launched its 13th Super Heavy-Starship rocket Friday, with the giant booster chalking up an on-target but “hard” splashdown off the Texas Gulf Coast while the Starship upper stage carried out a successful suborbital hop to the Indian Ocean. Powered by 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines, the 397-foot-tall two-stage rocket blasted off from SpaceX’s Starbase, Texas,…
F-16 fighter jets on Sunday intercepted multiple planes that flew through restricted airspace over Bedminster and East Rutherford, New Jersey, the site of the World Cup final, military officials said. The jets deployed flares to catch the attention of some of the pilots of those planes, which may have been visible to people on the…
