Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. In this age of 15-hour nonstop flights, it’s hard to imagine a world where even flying a couple of hundred miles ...

LONDON—Long-awaited flight testing of MBDA’s Spear 3 mini cruise missile on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has begun. The turbojet-powered missile, which is set to become the primary weapon of the UK’s F-35 fleet,

SpaceX’s upgraded Starship successfully deployed mock satellites and returned to Earth largely unscathed, though its booster spun out of control and broke apart over the Gulf of Mexico. The gigantic rocket’s twelfth major test flight was a successful,