When a country’s banking system collapses and a million people are forced from their homes, money still has to move. In Lebanon, it is moving through phones. Digital wallets and peer-to-peer fintech platforms have become important infrastructure for crisis aid delivery in Lebanon, as reported by Wired, filling a void left by a banking sector […]

The post When Banks Collapse, Code Steps In: How Digital Wallets Became Lebanon’s Lifeline appeared first on Space Daily.

The United States military reportedly pulled off a high-stakes combat rescue deep inside Iranian territory over the weekend, extracting the second crew member of an F-15E Strike Eagle that was allegedly shot down over southern Iran on Friday. The operation — stretching across 48 hours, involving dozens of aircraft, heavy firefights, and at least one […]

The post Inside the Most Complex Combat Rescue in Two Decades: What the F-15E Recovery Tells Us About Modern Air Operations Over Iran appeared first on Space Daily.

The James Webb Space Telescope's five-layer sunshield, made from Kapton polymer thinner than a human hair, is the single most important engineering achievement on the observatory. Its design, testing, and deployment reveal what engineering at the edge of possibility actually looks like.

The post The complete engineering story of the James Webb Space Telescope’s sunshield: five layers of kapton thinner than a human hair holding back the heat of the Sun appeared first on Space Daily.

Israeli authorities have steadily tightened restrictions around Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque since a 1994 massacre, and Palestinian officials say the measures have accelerated sharply since October 2023, raising alarms about the systematic transformation of one of Islam’s oldest holy sites. The Ibrahimi Mosque, built over a cave believed to contain the tombs of the prophet Abraham […]

The post The Slow Erasure of Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque: How Incremental Restrictions Are Displacing Palestinian Worshippers appeared first on Space Daily.

Imagine your small business’s network router fails on a Monday morning. Under Colorado’s current right-to-repair law, you could take it to an independent shop or fix it yourself using manufacturer-provided parts and documentation. But under a bill now moving through the Colorado legislature, that same router could be reclassified as “critical infrastructure” IT equipment — […]

The post How a ‘Critical Infrastructure’ Loophole Could Gut Colorado’s Right-to-Repair Law appeared first on Space Daily.

An Atlas 5 rocket reportedly carried 29 Amazon broadband satellites into low Earth orbit early Saturday morning, what may have been the heaviest payload the venerable rocket has ever flown and a sign of how hard Amazon is pushing to catch up on a constellation deployment timeline that looks increasingly difficult to meet. The Atlas […]

The post Amazon’s Kuiper Math Problem: 1,375 Satellites to Go and No Clear Ride to Orbit appeared first on Space Daily.