Aeronautics & Aerospace

Rats took over this Pacific island. Now drones are leading the fightback

Wired UK: When the people who would become the first Polynesian islanders ventured out into the remote Pacific some 3,000 years ago, they took three main animals with them; pigs,…

The Hubble Space Telescope is facing its most serious glitch in a decade and NASA really wants to fix it

Space.com: The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is facing its most serious malfunction in more than a decade, and while NASA is eager to restore the iconic observatory, the agency…

Greening Air Travel Through Sustainable Fuels Will Be A Tough Climb

Forbes: As concerns about Covid-19 slowly fade, the skies are becoming friendlier again, with domestic flight traffic creeping up toward pre-pandemic levels. But it’s not there yet. By March 2021, passenger traffic increased by 30% from last month, and airlines…

In Push to Find Methane Leaks, Satellites Gear Up for the Hunt

Yale Environment 360: The threat was invisible to the eye: tons of methane billowing skyward, blown out by natural gas pipelines snaking across Siberia. In the past, those plumes of potent greenhouse gas released by Russian petroleum operations last year might have…