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☆ Amelia Earhart: Sonar imagery resembling missing plane was a rock formation
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

After returning to the site on November 1, Deep Sea Vision — an ocean exploration company based in Charleston, South Carolina, that captured the original sonar image — has identified the object to be a natural rock formation. The hunt for Earhart’s plane continuesThe rock formation was more than 16,000 feet (4,877 meters) underwater. The team sent out the AUV directly above the site in early November, producing a high-resolution image of the rock formation. After the anxious wait, the image surprisingly revealed that the object was a natural rock formation, he said. When Deep Sea Vision first announced the anomaly, Jourdan cautioned against using sonar imagery to identify anything on the seafloor.

Persons: Amelia Earhart, Earhart, Electra, ”, Tony Romeo, “, ” Romeo, Romeo, shouldn’t, Nauticos, David Jourdan, Jourdan, ” Jourdan, ” Amelia Earhart, Fred Noonan, Dorothy Cochrane, Cochrane Organizations: CNN, Lockheed, US Air Force, Vision, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Locations: Charleston , South Carolina, Kennebunkport , Maine, Lae, Papua New Guinea, Howland

☆ China just showed off its answer to America's F-35 stealth fighter — the new J-35A
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-12 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

China showed off its new stealth aircraft, including the fifth-gen J-35A. AdvertisementChina just debuted its newest fifth-generation stealth aircraft, which appears to be its answer to the American F-35. Related storiesFor stealth fighters, the US has the F-22 Raptor and F-35, and the latter is used by allies around the world. Among stealth aircraft, there are also stealth bombers like the American B-2 Spirit and B-21 Raider and a number of stealth drones. Stealth aircraft have features to reduce or obscure their signature on radars, making them difficult to detect.

Persons: —, Lockheed Martin, Wang Yongqing, Wang, Maj, Gina Sabric, Roger Wicker, Eric Schmitt Organizations: Service, China International Aviation, Aerospace, People's Liberation Army News Communication, Shenyang Aircraft Design, Aviation Industry Corporation of China's Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, Pentagon, Air Force, Air and Space Forces Association's Air, Cyber Conference, 10th Air Force, Getty, US, US Air Force, Stealth, Taiwan Locations: China, Zhuhai, Russia, Pacific, Taiwan

☆ What Trump's second term means for space and why one expert is 'hugely optimistic'
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-09 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Space industry experts told Business Insider that Musk's influence over Trump could help advance his business interests, including sending the first crewed mission to Mars. "I'm hugely optimistic about what's going to happen in space now," Michelle Hanlon, executive director of the Center for Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law, told Business Insider. Hanlon's optimism isn't unfounded, especially if Trump's second term focuses on space as much as his first. AdvertisementDuring his first term, from 2017 to 2021, Trump's administration founded the Space Force, re-launched the National Space Council, and established NASA's Artemis program. A spokesperson for Trump's campaign said that Musk's ideas and efficiency will benefit federal bureaucracy but his role in Trump's administration remains under wraps.

Persons: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Trump, —, Elon Musk's, Michelle Hanlon, Musk, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Axios, Jim Watson, Deborah Sivas, it's, Elon, Hanlon, George Nield, we've, Donald Trump’s, Anna Moneymaker, Nield, Artemis program's Organizations: Service, Trump, Center for Air, Space, University of Mississippi School of Law, Space Force, Space Council, Department of Government, Traffic Safety Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, Ukrainian, Getty, SpaceX, Environmental, Stanford, Republicans, Space Transportation, NASA, Orion Locations: Pennsylvania, Butler , Pennsylvania, Sivas

☆ Putin revises his nuclear doctrine, but have his red lines shifted?
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-27 | by ( Nathan Hodge | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

This week, Putin once again rattled the arms-control world by revealing proposed changes to his country’s nuclear doctrine. “In the current version of Russia’s nuclear doctrine, there is no distinction between an aggression by nuclear- and non-nuclear-weapon state,” he wrote. “There are two noteworthy points of departure from the previous 2020 Russian military doctrine,” she wrote on X. “2020 doctrine allowed the use of NW [nuclear weapons] in response to conventional aggression that jeopardizes the very existence of the state. And the results of Zelensky’s visit to the US may soon tell us whether anyone in Washington is listening to Putin’s nuclear talk.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, Biden, Pavel Podvig, ”, ” Podvig, “, Mariana Budjeryn, Harvard Kennedy, Alexander Nemenov, Budjeryn, Kristin Ven Bruusgaard, ” It’s, Ven Bruusgaard Organizations: CNN, Kremlin, Council, Russian Federation, “, Harvard, Getty, Norwegian Intelligence School Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Moscow, Washington, USSR, United States, ” Moscow, AFP, Russian

☆ Over half of the Air Force's Osprey fleet has been cleared to fly after a deadly crash prompted a military-wide grounding
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Thomas Novelly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The news comes less than a year after a deadly November CV-22 Osprey crash in Japan that claimed the lives of eight airmen. AdvertisementJapan Ground Self-Defense Forces soldiers disembark from a V-22 Osprey aircraft. Debris believed to be from a US military Osprey aircraft is seen in waters off the coast of Yakushima Island. The cause of the Japan crash was determined to be the fracturing of a high-speed planetary pinion gear in the aircraft's prop rotor gearbox. US Air Force photo/Senior Airman Christopher CallawayThe Gundam 22 crew did press on after the chip burn lights and did not violate their training.

Persons: —, Michael Conley, that's, We've, Conley, YUICHI YAMAZAKI, Military.com, Jeffrey Hoernemann, Eric Spendlove, Luke Unrath, Terrell Brayman, Zachary Lavoy, Jake Turnage, Brian Johnson, Jake Galliher, Carl Chebi, NAVAIR, we've, Bell, Christopher Callaway, AFSOC, Amber Sax, John Sax, Sax, Konstantin Toropin Organizations: Service, Special, Command, Air, Space Force Association, Business, Defense Forces, Getty, Naval Air Systems Command, Program, Ospreys, Air Force, Osprey, Japan Coast Guard, AP, Air Force Special Operations Command, Tech, Staff, Pentagon, Bell, Boeing, US Air Force, Gundam, Marine Corps Locations: Washington, Japan, Yakushima Island, California

☆ See the first video showing the US Air Force's B-21 Raider in flight
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The US Air Force released a video showing the B-21 Raider stealth bomber taking off and landing. The force's newest bomber took its first flight last fall and is in production. AdvertisementThe US Air Force released the first footage of its new stealth bomber taking off and landing during flight testing. The testing marks a monumental moment for the B-21 Raider, which is shaping up to replace the branch's older bombers and become "the backbone" of its "flexible global strike capability," the Air Force said. The video was released Wednesday alongside the B-21 Update panel at the 2024 Air, Space and Cyber Conference by the Air and Space Forces Association.

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☆ The US Air Force's potential shift to adaptable 'light fighters' to solve budget woes is more complicated than it seems
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-03 | by ( Alex Hollings | Sandboxx News | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +32 min

US Air Force photo illustration by Staff Sgt. The Air Force needs new missiles, new bombers, and new fighters — but is struggling to pay for them allThe B-21 Raider in flight at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Cultural inertia in the fighter businessUS Air Force fighter aircraft fly in formation. A rendering of a future crewed next-generation air dominance aircraft by the US Air Force Research Laboratory. Nonetheless, for a cash-strapped Air Force, this would be a significant challenge.

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☆ See the XQ-67A combat drone's first flight as the US Air Force works to build its fleet of manned and AI-piloted aircraft
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Hope Seck | Sandboxx News | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

It's been an eventful few months for the XQ-67A and the Air Force's efforts to create a fleet of low-cost, high-tech autonomy-capable aircraft that can network with and support manned fighters in the air. Air Force Research Laboratory/DVIDsThe new angles highlighted in the short video underscore the unique design of this prospective fighter jet teammate. The Air Force plans to fast-track production of the first 100 collaborative combat aircraft, delivering them to the fleet by 2029. AdvertisementThe Air Force hopes CCA won't just augment or modernize air warfare — but transform it entirely. Air Force Research Laboratory/DVIDsCCA, the paper's authors write, could help disrupt China's preferred way of fighting and deny the country an assured victory, if employed correctly to multiply capabilities.

Persons: Atomics Gray, It's, Atomics, Mike Atwood, Kratos, Frank Kendall, China's Organizations: Service, US Air Force, Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Air, Air Force, ASI, USAF, Air Force Research, and Space Forces Magazine, Cessna, CCA, Atomics, Marine Corps, Collaborative, Attritable Aircraft Technologies, The Air Force, Force, Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies Locations: Atomics Gray Butte, Palmdale , CA, OBSS, China

☆ Avro Arrow: How Canada’s dream plane turned into a nightmare
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

The Avro Arrow, also known as the CF-105, had a lot resting on its wings. To this day, 65 years later, the Avro Arrow remains one of Canada’s biggest collective regrets and still fuels public discourse, as recently unveiled documents have shed some light on exactly what happened to the doomed project. As a result, thousands of jobs were lost and Avro Canada eventually collapsed entirely. Another says Canadian intelligence analysts deliberately misconstrued information to support a decision that the government had essentially made, providing an excuse for it. “They decided they wanted a big new fancy plane, so they came up with all the operational requirements largely in isolation, without really paying attention to what the reports were saying.”By the late 1950s, he adds, the Arrow arrow was getting very expensive and quite delayed.

Persons: ”, Richard Mayne, ” Mayne, “, Mayne, didn’t, John Diefenbaker, Alan Barnes, Barnes, Keith Beaty, Dan Aykroyd, Crawford Gordon, Arrow, John Burzynski, ” Burzynski, Burzynski Organizations: CNN, Avro, Royal Canadian Air Force, Arrows, Soviet Union, DND, ” Aircraft, ”, Sputnik, “, CF, NASA, Ottawa’s Carleton University, Soviets, Chiefs, Staff Committee, Canadian Air and Space Museum, Toronto Star, CBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Reynolds, Springbank Airport, Canada Aviation, Space Museum, Canadian Aviation and Space Museum, Arrow Locations: Canada, Soviet, Soviet Union, North America, Avro Canada, American, United, United States, Canadian, Wetaskiwin , Alberta, Muskoka , Ontario, Calgary –, Ottawa, Lake Ontario

☆ CNN gets a rare look at the Iranian missiles and drones that hit Israel
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Fred Pleitgen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But he’s more than happy to show the missiles and drones Iran used in its first ever attack against Israel launched directly from Iranian soil. Iran’s attack on Israel included drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. “NATO, The United States and Arab countries of the region wanted to create barriers for our drones, missiles and cruise missiles, but they failed,” Belali says. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Daniel Hagari said that ballistic missiles that reached Israel fell on the airbase and caused only light structural damage. Shahed attack drones on an unmarked truck at an Iranian Revolutionary Guards exhibit in Tehran, Iran on May 1, 2024.

Persons: Tehran CNN —, ”, General Ali Belali, ” Belali, Israel, Belali, Jordan, Fred Pleitgen, Daniel Hagari, John Krzyzaniak, Lockheed Martin Organizations: Tehran CNN, Revolutionary Guard, Islamic, Israel, CNN, Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Revolutionary Guard Aerospace Forces, NATO, Israel Defense Forces, Washington, Wisconsin, Control, ISIS, Lockheed, CIA, Guards Locations: Tehran, Islamic Republic, Israel, Iran, Damascus, Gaza, Iraq, France, United States, Washington ,, Syria, Kurdish, American, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Russia, Moscow

☆ Billionaires going to space aim to industrialize the moon, asteroids, and Mars. It's time to set some ground rules.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Read previewThe space business is in bloom and, so far, it's largely unregulated. Other space startups have ambitions including asteroid mining, in vitro fertilization (IVF) in space, and space hotels. As space startups and billionaires vie for a foothold on the moon and beyond, experts say governments probably need to start setting some ground rules. Seven of the world's 10 biggest commercial space operators are based in the US, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. AdvertisementIn another vein, last year Florida passed a bill to protect space companies and their owners from getting sued over spaceflight passenger death or injury.

Persons: —, Jeff Bezos's, Elon Musk, Bezos, NASA What's, George Nield, Galileo, Joel Kearns, Richard Branson, Galactic's, Lyndon B, Johnson, Jeff Bezos, Joe Raedle, Michelle Hanlon, Jared Isaacman, William Shatner, Hanlon Organizations: Service, NASA, Houston, SpaceX, Business, Northeastern University, Federal Aviation Administration's, Space Transportation, JPL, FAA, Virgin Galactic, Virgin, Getty, Artemis Accords, Hague Institute, Global Justice, Washington, Companies, Shepard, Center for Air, Space, University of Mississippi School of Law, titans, US International Trade Commission, Organisation for Economic Co, Federal Communications Locations: Mars, Russia, China, Blue, Florida

☆ Abortion opponents settle lawsuit against D.C. museum over 'pro-life' hat ban
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-18 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Patrons enter the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum for the public reopening of the museum’s west end galleries on the National Mall in Washington, U.S. October 14, 2022. The federally funded museum agreed to pay the more than a dozen plaintiffs a total of $50,000 to settle the suit, according to the filing in U.S. District Court in Washington. And the Smithsonian agreed to notify security personnel at all of its museums and the National Zoo about its policy allowing hats and other articles of clothing bearing messages, "including religious and political speech." The settlement comes four months after the National Archives Museum in Washington agreed to pay $10,000 to a smaller group of plaintiffs and to abide by similar conditions to settle a similar lawsuit. The plaintiffs in that case were told by National Archives guards to either cover clothing bearing "pro-life" messages or leave that federally operated institution on Jan. 20, 2023.

Organizations: Air and Space Museum, National Air and Space Museum, Washington , D.C, Smithsonian, National Zoo, National Archives Museum, National Archives Locations: Washington , U.S, Washington ,, South Carolina, Washington

☆ US Air Force special ops forces are turning big cargo planes into bombers with a new weapon
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Workhorse transport planes fighting as bombersThe rehearsals allow the airmen to rapidly employ a litany of effects via airdrop from airlift platforms, such as the MC-130J Commando II. US Army PhotoTraditionally, the Air Force's workhorse transport planes, like the C-17 Globemaster III and MC-130J Commando II, have aided in the strategic and rapid delivery of fuel and supplies via airdrop. These two types of planes were selected for the initiative because turning them into bombers required fewer modifications and training. Slife said the cargo plane can carry as many long-range weapons as a B-52. This plane, given its size, can carry three times as many long-range precision munitions as a B-52 bomber, according to Slife.

Persons: Jim Slife, Slife, Valerie Knight Organizations: US Army, Air, US Air Force Special Operations Command, Air and Space Forces Association, Business, 352nd Wing

LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. aerospace company Stratolaunch conducted the first powered test flight of a new unmanned craft for hypersonic research on Saturday and called it a success. Hypersonic describes flights at speeds of at least Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound. The Talon, powered by a liquid-fuel rocket engine, ended its flight by descending into the ocean as planned. The company called the result a major milestone in the development of the United States' first privately funded, reusable hypersonic test capability. That project was canceled, and new owners then repurposed Stratolaunch for launches of reusable hypersonic research vehicles.

Persons: Stratolaunch, Zachary Krevor, ” Krevor, Roc, Paul G, Allen Organizations: ANGELES, —, Mojave Air, Space, Microsoft, U.S . Air Force Research Laboratory Locations: — U.S, California, United States, Los Angeles, Reston , Virginia

☆ Nearly 30,000 objects are hurtling through near-Earth orbit. That’s not just a problem for space
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Bill Weir | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Then there is the space junk — nearly 30,000 objects bigger than a softball hurtling a few hundred miles above Earth, ten times faster than a bullet. Other analysts recently estimated the number likely to make it to orbit is closer to 20,000. “Ten years ago, people thought that our founder was crazy for even talking about space debris,” Ron Lopez told CNN while strolling past the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. The satellite, named “On Closer Inspection,” will observe the motions of a rocket stage that was left in low-Earth orbit in 2009. Astroscale’s mission will use cameras and sensors to study the rocket debris and figure out how to get it out of orbit.

Persons: ”, Troy Thornberry, “, ” Thornberry, Neil Armstrong’s, Donald Kessler, “ Kessler, Ron Lopez, ” Lopez, Lopez, Astroscale Organizations: CNN, Sputnik, NOAA, NOAA’s Chemical Sciences Laboratory, US, Surveillance, NASA, SpaceX, Space, Smithsonian Air, Space Museum, Rocket, Rocket Lab Locations: Washington ,, Astroscale, New Zealand, Japan

The sun is about to pull another disappearing act across North America, turning day into night during a total solar eclipse. Photos You Should See View All 15 ImagesHere's what to know about April’s extravaganza and how to prepare:WHAT HAPPENS DURING THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE? By a cosmic stroke of luck, the moon will make the month’s closest approach to Earth the day before the total solar eclipse. WHEN IS THE NEXT TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE? The next total solar eclipse, in 2026, will grace the northern fringes of Greenland, Iceland and Spain.

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☆ Opinion: Why we can’t let go of the mystery of Amelia Earhart
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Opinion Dorothy Cochrane | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

A marine robotics company recently captured an object on the ocean floor, about 15,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Earhart’s flight plan was well known. According to Earhart biographer Doris Rich, the US government had obtained permits for the countries she would stop in along the way. And it fit her need of a refueling stop in the western Pacific Ocean. In 1997, pilot Elgen Long and his wife Marie Long published the book, “Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved.” The Longs laid out facts and solid suppositions for others to follow.

Persons: Dorothy Cochrane, Read, Dorothy Cochrane Carolyn Russo, Amelia Earhart, Fred Noonan, Howland, Earhart, —, “, Tony Romeo, Romeo, Noonan, Doris Rich, Roosevelt, Earhart’s, George Putnam, Rich, Itasca, Elgen Long, Marie Long, “ Amelia Earhart, reengineered, Lockheed Electra NR16020, Electra Organizations: General Aviation, Aeronautics Department, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, CNN, Lockheed, US Coast Guard, DSV, Coast Guard personnel, Nauticos Inc Locations: Howland Island, Lae , New Guinea, United States, Howland, Itasca, Honolulu , Hawaii

☆ Amelia Earhart's plane could be 'well preserved' but there's no guarantee it's been found, expert says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewExperts have rushed to weigh in following news of tantalizing sonar imagery in the hunt for Amelia Earhart's lost plane — which, even if it has not been found, could still be well-preserved in its final resting place. They were taken at a depth of 16,400 feet, about 100 miles from Howland Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which Romeo's team considered one of the likeliest areas for Earhart's plane to have come down. AdvertisementThe plane is made primarily from aluminum, Jourdan told The Washington Post back in 2001, discussing a search at a similar depth and location. At those temperatures, even Earhart's charts and other papers may have been preserved, The Post and Courier reported.

Persons: —, Amelia Earhart's, Tony Romeo, we've, Romeo, Katherine Tangalakis, Rebecca Rommen, Romeo doesn't, it's, Earhart, David Jourdan, Jourdan, Megan Lickliter, Mundon Organizations: Service, Street, Business, Smithsonian Institution's, Air and Space Museum, CNN, Washington Post, Courier, New York Times Locations: Howland

Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesHow did Deep Sea Vision detect the object that could be Earhart's plane? But it wasn't until the team reviewed sonar data in December that they saw the fuzzy yellow outline of what resembles a plane. “In the end, we came out with an image of a target that we believe very strongly is Amelia’s aircraft," Romeo told The Associated Press. But he said that Romeo’s team must provide “a forensic level of documentation” to prove it’s Earhart’s Lockheed. He would have expected to see straight wings and not swept wings, like the new sonar suggests, as well as engines.

Persons: Amelia Earhart, Tony Romeo, Electra, Romeo, Earhart, Fred Noonan, Noonan, “ Amelia, James Delgado, ”, Delgado, Romeo's, David Jourdan, Dorothy Cochrane, Cochrane, ’ ”, Lockheed Electra, Ole Varmer, Varmer, ” Varmer, “ It’s, —, Finley, Pollard Organizations: COLUMBIA, Lockheed, Archaeologists, Pan American Airlines, Air Force, Associated Press, Navy, National Air and Space Museum, National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, The Ocean Foundation, Purdue Research Foundation, Purdue University in, Smithsonian, America Statehouse News Initiative, America Locations: South Carolina, Norwegian, Howland, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, New Guinea, U.S, New Jersey, “, Maritime, Connecticut, Howland Island, Purdue University in Indiana, Norfolk , Virginia

☆ The moon is shrinking, and it could be a problem for astronauts
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

On the lunar surface, however, it’s a different story. “We also knew that the largest of the shallow moonquakes detected by the Apollo seismometers was located near the south pole. As part of the mission, two astronauts will spend about a week living and working on the lunar surface. They can be an opportunity to better study the moon as we do on the Earth with earthquakes,” Husker said. Studying moonquakes at the south pole will tell us more about the Moon’s interior structure as well as its present-day activity.”

Persons: India’s, Russia’s Luna, Artemis, ”, Thomas R, Watters, ” Watters, LRO, “, Renee Weber, ” Weber, Weber, Yosio Nakamura, Nakamura, Allen Husker, Husker, Jeffrey Andrews, Hanna Organizations: CNN, NASA, National Air, Space Museum’s, for, Planetary Studies, Lunar, Science, Apollo, University of Texas, California Institute of Technology, University of Arizona Locations: China, Austin

All parts of the vertical launch configuration are authentic components of the shuttle system, including the rust-colored external tank, which was flight-qualified. The external tank arrived by barge and made a similar trip across the city. A groundbreaking ceremony for the Air and Space Center was held in 2022 on the 11th anniversary of Endeavour’s final return from space. The 116-foot-long (35.3-meter-long) rocket motors were trucked to Los Angeles from the Mojave Desert in October and were installed the following month. Atlantis is at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, where it is displayed as if in orbit with its payload doors open and robotic arm extended.

Persons: — NASA's, Samuel Oschin, Steven F Organizations: ANGELES, Space Shuttle Endeavour, Samuel, Samuel Oschin Air, Space Center, California Science Center, Endeavour, Los Angeles International Airport, NASA Boeing, Air and Space, NASA, Shuttle Challenger, Columbia, Atlantis, Enterprise, Kennedy Space Center, National Air, Intrepid Museum Locations: Los Angeles, Exposition Park, Florida, Chantilly , Virginia, New York

☆ Sonar imagery may have located Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane, researchers say
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Amelia Earhart is photographed with her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, the aircraft she used in her attempted flight around the world. “While it is possible that this could be a plane and maybe even Amelia’s plane, it is too premature to say that definitively. In Earhart’s last communications, her radio transmissions progressively got stronger as she got closer to Howland Island, indicating that she was nearing the island before she disappeared, Cochrane said. For that reason, you can never say that something is (or isn’t) from a sonar image alone,” Jourdan said in an email. Confirming that the found anomaly is Earhart’s plane would require returning to the site to further investigate the plane, and more definitively, locating the certification “NR16020” that was printed on the underside of the missing Lockheed’s wing, Jourdan said.

Persons: Amelia Earhart’s, Charleston , South Carolina —, Electra, Earhart, Amelia Earhart, ”, Tony Romeo, “, Romeo, Fred Noonan, Andrew Pietruszka, ” Pietruszka, Noonan, Dorothy Cochrane, Cochrane, Earhart’s Lockheed Electra, David Jourdan, ” Jourdan, Jourdan, Taylor Swift, ” Cochrane Organizations: CNN —, Lockheed, Underwood, Vision, US Air Force, CNN, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, US National Archives, Group for Historic Aircraft, Smithsonian, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Locations: Charleston , South Carolina, Howland, Lae, Papua New Guinea, San Diego, Marshall, Saipan, Nikumaroro, Kiribati

☆ A former US Air Force officer spent $11 million searching for Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane — and may have found it
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Amelia Earhart, 40, stands next to a Lockheed Electra 10E, before her last flight in 1937 from Oakland, California. Amelia Earhart took off from the airport in her £10,000 Flying Laboratory for Honolulu on the first leg of her round-the-world flight. A map of where Earhart's plane is believed to have gone missing along her presumed flight path. Romeo and his company, Deep Sea Vision, discovered an object of similar size and shape to Amelia Earhart's iconic plane, deep in the Pacific Ocean. Advertisement"It's very deep water, and the area that she could've possibly been in is huge," Tom Dettweiler, a sonar expert, told The Journal.

Persons: —, Amelia Earhart, Tony Romeo, Fred Noonan, Romeo, I've, Dorothy Cochrane, Andrew Pietruszka, he's, Amelia Earhart's, we've, there'll, it'll, Earhart's, Tom Dettweiler, Earhart, Cochrane, I'm Organizations: Service, US Air Force, Business, Lockheed, AP, Kongsberg, Street Journal, Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution's, Air and Space Museum, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Smithsonian, dateline Locations: Oakland , California, Norwegian, Tarawa, Kiribati, Honolulu, Howland, Honolulu , Hawaii

☆ Why there is a new global race to the moon
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Magdalena Petrova | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

But moon landings are likely to become more common over the next few years. "The moon is a proving ground," said Michelle Hanlon, executive director at the Center for Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi. But, once we figure that out, the helium-3 on the moon could seriously power the Earth, the entire Earth, for centuries," Hanlon said. "But a second, newer part to this is the belief that there are significant resources on the moon that are useful to Earth, or useful for future space flight." To find out more about the new moon race and why the U.S. and China are currently the leaders, watch the video.

Persons: Michelle Hanlon, Hanlon, Dean Cheng Organizations: European Space Agency, Center for Air, Space, University of Mississippi, United States Institute of Peace Locations: Japan, Russia, China, India

☆ Satellite photos show how the US Air Force is reclaiming a WWII-era airfield from the jungle to prepare to dodge Chinese missiles
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Christopher Woody | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

The US Air Force is developing more dispersed bases to counter the threat posed by China's missiles. US engineers quickly began building what became the biggest and busiest air base of the war. "Air Force engineers are scheduled to remove the vegetation that have penetrated through the cracks and joints of the old pavement surfaces," Peden added. Money is allotted for work at Tindal air base — including $93 million to build a parking apron for six B-52 bombers — and Darwin air base, both of which are in Australia's Northern Territory. The Air Force is working with the rest of the military to address those challenges, Thomas Lawhead, acting deputy chief of staff for Air Force Futures, said at an event this month.

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