Jun 19, 2025 | China, Featured, Space
China brought two spacecraft together high above Earth as part of a refueling demonstration mission, according to a space situational awareness company. China’s Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 satellites had been moving toward each other in geosynchronous orbit,...
Jun 18, 2025 | Drones, First Responders, Law Enforcement
A crime reported on Hawaiian homelands may someday trigger police to dispatch a flying drone with the quick press of a button. That’s the pitch Hawaiʻi Department of Law Enforcement Director Mike Lambert made Tuesday to the Hawaiian Homes Commission as he underscored...
Jun 17, 2025 | Fusion, Nuclear, Space, UK
Pulsar Fusion, a U.K.-based firm attempting to unlock nuclear fusion to power space travel, is opening its first U.S. location in the Austin area. The company announced Monday that it’s searching for roughly 50,000 square feet to build a clean room and to...
Jun 16, 2025 | Delivery, Drones
Walmart has announced it is significantly expanding its drone delivery service to five major U.S. cities, marking the retailer’s largest roll-out of the technology since launching the program three years ago. The Bentonville, Arkansas-based retail giant will...
Jun 12, 2025 | Drones, Hybrids, Military
The United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFB), Ohio, has awarded a nearly $100 million contract to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) to develop a hybrid-electric ducted fan-powered unmanned aerial...
Jun 12, 2025 | Auto Industry, Japan, Tariffs
US President Donald Trump’s tariffs threaten to batter Japan’s vital auto industry and derail the country’s long-standing efforts to engineer a sustainable economic recovery. With the 25% US tariff now in place on cars and auto parts, Japan’s major automakers —...
Jun 12, 2025 | Featured, Space
Rocket Lab launched an Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit for the Japanese company iQPS on Wednesday morning (June 11). An Electron rocket topped with the QPS-SAR-11 spacecraft lifted off from Rocket Lab’s New Zealand site on Wednesday at...
Jun 12, 2025 | Featured, Oceanography, Robots
Oceans may cover more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, but we have better maps of the moon than we do the seabed. There are good reasons for that: The ocean floor is obscured, and the harsh environment makes it hard to send humans down to get a closer look. But as...
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