Bizarre Flock of Mystery Drones Continue Troubling Great Plains, Baffling...
Though sightings appear to have cooled off somewhat, the mystery remains...
View ArticleSpaceX Launches 100th Successful Flight in a Row Amid Growing Industry Backlash
It's SpaceX's 100th successful flight in a row since 2015.
View ArticleElon Musk Blames FAA After SpaceX Scrubs Falcon 9 Mission at Last Second
"The current regulatory system is broken," he tweeted.
View ArticleJeff Bezos Is Not an Astronaut (But Branson Still Is) Under New FAA Rule
The FAA announced the rule change on the day Jeff Bezos flew to space.
View ArticleSpaceX Inspiration4 Completes First Day in Space: Take a Look Inside the...
The crew has seen the sun rise and set 15 times.
View ArticleThe FAA Is Fine With You Using Most Electronics During Takeoffs and Landings
Our long national nightmare of having to turn off our Kindles while taxiing is now over. The Federal Aviation Administration announced today that the use of personal electronic devices can be utilized...
View ArticleAmazon Is Asking the FAA to Bend the Law for Their Drone Program
When Jeff Bezos first announced his evil plan to start a drone delivery program for all the precious goods you order from Amazon, everyone was pretty sure it was either a publicity stunt, an April...
View ArticleCongressman Hires Drone to Film Wedding Despite FAA Ban
In what we assume was an attempt to wow his wedding-obsessed Pinterest followers, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) paid to have his nuptials recorded by a camera mounted on a drone, CBS reports. The...
View ArticleThe FAA Says Drone Laws Will Be Ready by the End of the Year
Back in 2012, when it was becoming clear that the sky would someday be filled with little quadcopters delivering our packages and peaking in our windows, Congress told the Federal Aviation...
View ArticleSpaceX’s First Starship Orbital Flight Won’t Happen in 2021, FAA Says
Since its successful high-altitude test flight in May with a prototype called SN15, SpaceX has been preparing for Starship’s first orbital test, which would require a giant booster called Super Heavy...
View ArticleAmazon Is Prodding the FAA to Let Flyers Use Wi-Fi During Takeoff and Landing
As the Federal Aviation Authority continues to reevaluate its archaic in-flight electronic rules, it might add another distraction to its list: Wi-Fi. The panel decided that Wi-Fi can be utilized...
View ArticleFAA to Decide ‘Very Quickly’ If Passengers Can Use Electronics During Takeoff...
Remember when we all got excited that the FAA was going to soon ease its draconian regulations on the use of in-flight electronics…and then nothing happened? Well, now that the government shutdown is...
View ArticleSpaceX Inspiration4 Completes First Day in Space: Take a Look Inside the...
SpaceX on Wednesday evening successfully launched a crew of four amateur astronauts into space in a fully automatic Crew Dragon spacecraft. The mission, called Inspiration4, is the first full-civilian...
View ArticleSpaceX’s First Starship Orbital Flight Won’t Happen in 2021, FAA Says
Since its successful high-altitude test flight in May with a prototype called SN15, SpaceX has been preparing for Starship’s first orbital test, which would require a giant booster called Super Heavy...
View ArticleNASA Quietly Removes the Calendar Placeholder For SpaceX’s Starship Launch
A time slot for SpaceX’s Starship orbital test on NASA’s calendar has been removed, adding new uncertainties around the highly anticipated flight of the world’s largest privately developed rocket....
View ArticleSpaceX May Not Launch the Second Starship Rocket as Fast as Elon Musk Hopes
As the Federal Aviation Administration and environmental regulators probe into the damages caused by last week’s Starship orbital launch attempt and the subsequent mid-air explosion, SpaceX may not be...
View ArticleElon Musk Aims to Launch SpaceX Starship Again as Early as December: Images
On Nov. 18, Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the long-awaited second orbital test of Starship, the company’s Mars-colonizing rocket, from its Starbase development site in Boca Chica, Texas. Like its first...
View ArticleJeff Bezos’s Blue Origin To Resume Launching Space Tourism Rocket After...
After being grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration for more than 15 months, Blue Origin’s space tourism rocket, New Shepard, is cleared to fly again. The Jeff Bezos-owned space company...
View ArticleA Former SpaceX Engineer Is Building an Airplane Anyone Can Fly in One Hour
In 2020, Nikita Ermoshkin, then an engineer at SpaceX, decided to get a private pilot license so that he could take day trips from his home in Los Angeles to San Francisco to visit friends and his...
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