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Space laser transmission strikes Earth from 140 million miles away: NASA
This redefined a long-distance call. Earth just received a laser transmission from a world- (and perhaps universe) record-breaking 140 million miles away — which could have major implications for the future of space travel. However, this correspondence wasn’t extraterrestrial in origin: It was actually sent by NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, which is currently located approximately 1.5 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. “This represents a significant milestone for the project by showing how optical communications can interface with a spacecraft’s radio frequency comms system,” Meera Srinivasan, the project’s operations lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said in a statement. Environmentalist...
Finnish carrier suspends Estonia flights after GPS interference prevents 2 landings
Finland’s national carrier Finnair said Monday it is temporarily suspending flights to Estonia’s second largest city for a month after two of its planes were prevented from landing in Tartu because of GPS disruptions.The cause of the GPS interference that forced the two flights to return to Helsinki last Thursday and Friday was not immediately known, but Estonian officials blame GPS jamming in the region on Russia. Plane approaches to Tartu Airport currently rely on GPS signals, said Finnair, which is the only airline to fly into that city. But there there are other navigational tools that can be...
Stansted and Birmingham airport passengers hit by long delays due to technical issues
Passengers at two of the UK’s busiest airports have experienced long delays due to a power failure – with flights this evening still affected.London Stansted, Britain’s fourth-busiest airport, “experienced a partial power outage” on Monday morning. It affected check-in, security and baggage systems.Some Jet2 departures to Turkey, Spain and Portugal were over two hours late, as was a Tui flight to Las Palmas and Ryanair to Kos.Inbound flights from the affected destinations are also delayed, with a Jet2 flight from Lanzarote now expected at 9.30pm rather than 7.30pm. The Ryanair flight from Kos back to Stansted is estimated to be...
Missing Delta Emergency Slide Washes Up in Surprising Spot
The missing emergency slide that fell off a Delta Airlines flight last week was found by a lawyer whose firm is suing Boeing, the New York Post reported. Jake Bissell-Linsk, whose house faces the Atlantic Ocean on Rockaway Peninsula about six miles southwest of New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, said the yellow slide quite literally washed up on the rocks just beyond his backyard. “We are right on the beach, and I saw it was sitting on the breakers,” he told the Post, adding that it looked undamaged despite getting caught in the rocks. Bissell-Linsk is a partner Labaton Keller Sucharow, the firm that sued Boeing in January after the Alaska Air door blowout incident, a coincidence that didn’t escape his notice. “Our case is all about safety issues at Boeing, and this slide is literally right in front of my house,” he added. The slide was fished out by Delta crew members on Sunday evening, and the FAA is investigating the initial incident.Read it at New York PostRead more at The Daily Beast.
Finnair suspends flights to Estonian airport due to ‘GPS interference in the area’
A leading international airline has cancelled all flights to an Estonian airport until June at the earliest due to “GPS interference in the area”.Finnair says that its normal services to Tartu, the cultural hub of Estonia, cannot operate safely because the approach is dependent on Global Positioning System (GPS) technology.In a post on X, the Finnish airline said: “We’re suspending our flights to Tartu from 29 April until 31 May.“The approach methods currently used at Tartu Airport are based on a GPS signal and GPS interference in the area affects the usability of this method.”Russia is widely suspected of jamming...
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