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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin the BlueBird 8-10 mission for AST SpaceMobile on June 17, 2026. The streak shot was captured from the sands of Cocoa Beach, Florida, south of the launch site. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now Update June 17, 4:10 a.m. EDT (0810 UTC): SpaceX confirms deployment of the three BlueBird satellites. AST SpaceMobile bounced back from the loss of its BlueBird 7 satellite last month with the launch of three more in the predawn hours of Wednesday morning. The company launched BlueBird 8,…

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — The U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Division (25th ID) has undergone a veritable metamorphosis in the past few years, but Maj. Gen. James Bartholomees, its commanding general, explained even more transformation is coming.Speaking to Defense News from the Philippines, Bartholomees confirmed that, as an original Transformation in Contact division, four of his five brigades have changed significantly already. Following his mobile infantry, artillery and sustainment brigades, he revealed the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB) is “next on the docket to do some transformation.”“The Gray Eagle company that was in Alaska is going to move to Hawaii –…

“These restrictions are in place to protect fans, athletes and the integrity of the event. We urge everyone to comply with all posted airspace restrictions.” Source: Cmdr. Dave Herndon, response department head, Coast Guard Sector San Francisco, in comments made the Coast Guard reminded the public that drones are strictly prohibited within a 3-nautical-mile radius of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., during FIFA World Cup games, as part of a temporary flight restriction (TFR) enforced for public safety.

Aero Linx: Additional Resources for Aviation and Aerospace (FAA) Whether you’re a student, parent, or educator, use this list of online resources to learn more about the worlds of STEM and aviation. FAA Links, Social Media, Additional Resources.

From 2024 (YouTube Edition): Developing STC For Fly-By-Wire In R-66 Rex Alexander spoke with Warren Curry of Skyryse about the Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) SkyRyse is developing that it anticipates will be certified in 2025. The STC is for a fly-by-wire system named SkyOS, in this instance for the Robinson R-66 helicopter. SkyOS is very different from what helicopter pilots are used to. Instead of using a collective, cyclic, and pedals to control the aircraft, SkyOS combines all of those parameters into one side-mounted stick that the pilot uses to control all the same flight parameters. In fact, the Skyryse…

Dozens of Marriott’s largest hotel owners are pressing the company to share more of the roughly $1 billion it forecasts it may earn this year from co-branded credit cards. A March letter to CEO Anthony Capuano and Chairman David Marriott was signed by 51 owners representing nearly 1,000 Marriott hotels, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Why it matters: Loyalty programs have turned into some of the most profitable corners of the hotel business. The tussle over the various streams of income pits the major hotel groups against the franchisees who provide services to the guests cashing in the…

Riyadh Air received approval from the Department of Transportation to operate flights in the U.S., the agency said Tuesday.  “We tentatively find and conclude that the public interest warrants granting the applicant a foreign air carrier permit,” the DOT order read. The carrier had applied to operate flights between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia on May 5.  The approval marks another major step for Riyadh Air, an upstart carrier backed by Saudi source

American Express’ pending $700 million acquisition of TheFork, Tripadvisor’s dining reservations platform, could speed up one of its key goals — expanding its global network. Amex said dining is one of the chief avenues for cardholder engagement, and TheFork is the leading restaurant reservations brand in Europe — essentially its OpenTable. TheFork does business with 50,000 restaurants in Europe in 11 countries. Access to perks and other incentives for TheFork reservations could help Amex compete with Mastercard and Visa in Europe and may appeal to U.S. travelers. Amex already owns Resy, a dining reservations platform that skews toward hard-to-reserve premium…

For $1,700 a night with a two-night minimum, Equinox Hotel New York will watch you sleep, score it, and share the results with a neuroscientist. It’s the Sleep Lab, four Premier King rooms wired like a clinical trial, with an adaptive mattress, a contrast-therapy shower whose ice setting drops to 46 degrees — the industry’s cold plunge usually stops at a polite 50 — and a bedside device that assesses your sleep quality each morning. The hardware is only part of the story. The headline is Matthew Walker, the Berkeley neuroscientist and Why We Sleep author whose name now functions…

The Gila River is among the Southwest’s most important rivers, delivering water for people, farms, and wildlife while linking the snow-fed mountains of southwestern New Mexico to the desert lowlands of southwestern Arizona. In wetter years, seasonal snowfall on the Mogollon Mountains and Black Range provides much of the river’s spring flow and helps refill San Carlos Reservoir, which is formed by the Coolidge Dam. When filled to capacity, the reservoir is one of Arizona’s largest bodies of water. However, in 2026, lackluster snowfall left the mountain snowpack in the Gila River watershed at 2 percent of the 1991-2020 March…