Blue Origin

Blue Origin lost at least 17 top staffers weeks after SpaceX was awarded the $2.9 billion NASA moon-lander contract, reports say

At least 17 top staffers at Blue Origin left the company this year, with many departing in the weeks after founder Jeff Bezos flew into space, CNBC reported. The news follows a report by Insider’s Kate Duffy on Tuesday, […]

Future Vertical Lift

Northrop Grumman: Future Vertical Lift

Northrop Grumman positions itself as being uniquely positioned as a provider of proven integrated, open, multi-domain capabilities. As a current provider for MDO-capable systems, they are investing in reduced size weight and power (SWaP) and […]

Airlines

A Spirit pilot and flight attendant describe flying empty planes around the country and being stranded for days last week amid the airline’s meltdown: ‘It was like being lost in space’

Spirit Airlines canceled over 2,000 flights last week because of a poorly timed combination of bad weather, system outages, and staffing issues. The cancellations caused some pilots to fly empty planes across the country while flight attendants […]

NASA Wallops

NG-16 Cygnus Prepares for Tuesday Launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, Va., as OFT-2 Starliner Delay Lengthens

Cygnus and its load of 8,200 pounds (3,700 kg) of equipment and supplies will be robotically captured and berthed at the space station after blasting off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, […]

USAF

A-10s land on Michigan State Highway

Four A-10s, Thunderbolt IIs, from the 354th Fighter Squadron and the Michigan Air National Guard’s 127th Wing landed on a state highway as part of Northern Strike 21, a large-scale training exercise, in Alpena, Michigan, […]

X-Planes

Highly Modified Air Force Test Pilot School F-16 Falcon Is Now An X-Plane, the X-62A

The U.S. Air Force has redesignated its NF-16D Falcon Variable-stability In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft, or VISTA, as the X-62A. This new X-plane nomenclature, something typically applied to purely experimental aircraft and other aerospace vehicles, is meant to better reflect this […]