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Ireland’s Kerten Hospitality will be opening its first property in India before the end of 2026, possibly ahead of the fourth quarter, CEO Marloes Knippenberg told Skift in an exclusive interview. And the initial target of 1,000 keys in the first phase of its India launch could go higher, Knippenberg said, driven partly by the fact that Indian developers rarely think in single-project terms. “Very few talk in one or two projects. Most of them are talking in nine, 10, 15 projects.” The lifestyle-led hospitality group, which operates 12 brands across 11 countries, is entering India with three lodging brands:…

A little more than five years ago, a shiny white Falcon 9 rocket made its debut flight, boosting a Cargo Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. Over the next year, it would launch a pair of astronaut missions and a handful of commercial spacecraft. But since then, this first stage booster, designated B 1067, has mostly flown Starlink missions. It has launched them one after another, always returning safely to a drone ship before undergoing refurbishment and flying again. Sometimes it has flown twice in a single month. On Monday morning, B 1067 once again took to the skies,…

NASA is introducing a new funding opportunity to accelerate academic research and technology development. The Minority University Research and Education Project Space Technology Artemis Research (M‑STAR) application window opened Thursday and will remain open through 11:59 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Aug. 11. The research funded through this award supports the agency’s priorities for exploring the Moon, Mars, and deep space, while strengthening eligible institutions in the future of space exploration. Through M-STAR, institutions are encouraged to grow their scientific and engineering capabilities, enhance faculty and student engagement in aerospace research, and expand their ability to compete for future federal and…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. Modularity is a key area of interest as the U.S. Air Force formulates its latest set of requirements for a successor to the MQ-9 Reaper, according to Gen. John Lamontagne, the service’s Vice Chief of Staff. A modular design, both in terms of hardware and software, would help make the chosen platform more flexible and adaptable to different mission sets. Earlier this year, the Air Force did lay out other prospective requirements for a relevant-sounding MQ-9 replacement, including a design that is…

Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber When digital services company Jeppesen ForeFlight was spun off from Boeing in November, its new private equity owner Thoma Bravo declared “the original innovators of aviation technology are back in a big way.” The company has since faced an uphill battle convincing skeptics that this proclamation is true. Its first acts after the transaction closed were straight out of the private-equity playbook: laying off employees and then raising prices for its popular ForeFlight flight planning product. These actions prompted accusations the company was being sucked into private equity’s relentless drive to maximize short-term…

Travelport formally launched TripServices on Thursday, a cloud-native API platform the company says can connect flights, hotels, and extras through one system while handling more of the booking work developers previously had to build themselves. The GDS wants more of that complexity to sit inside its own system, not with the agencies, startups, and AI tools building on top of it. The company said TripServices uses machine learning models to rank content, surface more relevant offers, and avoid returning long lists of options that do not fit the trip. The company also said it has spent the past 18 months…

“Following new leaks, Roscosmos has elected to proceed with a more extensive repair operation on Friday, June 5,” NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens wrote on X. “Out of an abundance of caution, NASA has directed all four of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-12 members and NASA astronaut Chris Williams to assume an elevated safety posture in the Dragon spacecraft while the repair is underway.” Back to normal After about 90 minutes, the communications officer at mission control in Houston told the crew that they could reopen hatches and reenter the space station. The specific repair task that caused NASA to issue the…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on June 12, 2026, on the Starlink 10-54 mission. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now Update June 12, 9:53 a.m. EDT (1353 UTC): SpaceX confirmed satellite deployment. SpaceX marked its historic launch on the stock market Friday morning with a Falcon 9 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the 650th flight of SpaceX’s workhorse launcher to date and the 68th Falcon 9 launch so far in 2026. SpaceX flew the Starlink 10-54 mission, which sent 29 Starlink V2…

Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers may have found a supernova remnant in an intriguing neighborhood in the middle of our galaxy. A paper describing these new findings published in The Astrophysical Journal. Supernova remnants are the expanding remains of exploded stars and provide elements – like iron, oxygen, and silicon – that are critical for the formation of planets and for life as we know it to form and flourish. This new supernova remnant, if confirmed, would be one of the closest ever discovered to the supermassive black hole at the central region of the Milky Way…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. The U.S. Marine Corps is aiming to put in an order for new anti-drone 5.56x45mm ammunition for its M4 carbines and M27 rifles by the end of the year. Produced by a company called Drone Round, the L Variant cartridge has a projectile that breaks into multiple segments to improve the probability of scoring a hit on a small, fast-moving aerial target. The idea is to give anyone with a rifle an immediate boost in their ability to defend against growing drone…