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Bloomberg • Kateryna Kadabashy

Houthi attacks on Riyadh airport trigger flight cancellations and hub suspension

Missile strikes on Riyadh’s airport killed more than a dozen people and prompted Saudi authorities to suspend hub operations, worsening an already difficult year for Middle East airlines. The disruption has driven flight cancellations and put the region’s airline operations under further pressure.

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2026-10-31T04:04:42.905450-07:00

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Space.com • Mike Wall

Happy Halloween! SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites to orbit from California

By Space.com: SpaceX sent another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit from California just after midnight on Halloween (Oct. 31).

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2026-10-30T23:00:37.990042-07:00

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The War Zone • Howard Altman

Surface-To-Air Missiles Deployed To Protect Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate

By The War Zone: AN/TWQ-1 Avengers fire FIM-92 Stinger missiles and have been joined by counter-drone fly-away sensor and jammer kits from U.S. Northern Command.

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2026-10-30T17:29:58.992306-07:00

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FlightGlobal • David Kaminski-Morrow

Virgin Galactic transfers first newly-designed spaceplane to base for flight testing

By FlightGlobal: Commercial service for six-passenger Delta-class vehicle intended in second quarter of 2027. Virgin Galactic has transported the first of its new generation of spaceplane to its operations base in New Mexico, showing off the craft’s livery.

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2026-10-31T03:04:56.584482-07:00

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FlightGlobal • David Kaminski-Morrow

Clearance mix-up allowed four jets to cross JFK runway in front of departing A330

By FlightGlobal: Swiss flight aborted take-off roll after poor co-ordination between controllers. US investigators have attributed a runway incursion involving four separate aircraft – which forced an Airbus A330 to abort take-off – to poor co-ordination between two tower controllers at New York JFK.

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2026-10-30T17:04:35.270535-07:00

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Universe Today • Laurence Tognetti

Hera Probe Sees Asteroid Pair Separately for First Time

By Universe Today: Planetary defense is a growing concern among the scientific community, as efforts have been made to design and implement missions meant to deflect incoming threats to the Earth well in advance.

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2026-10-30T19:04:31.337272-07:00

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SpaceNews.com • Jeff Foust

NASA seeks ideas for Hubble servicing mission

By SpaceNews.com: NASA is restarting a search for commercial missions to reboost or service the Hubble Space Telescope, more than two years after rejecting similar concepts.

Ars Technica

Once again, NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble from certain death

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2026-10-30T15:25:39.494208-07:00

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NASA Spaceflight • Ryan Weber

SpaceX Completes Three Static Fires in Three Days for Flight 15

By NASA Spaceflight: In eight days, SpaceX completed all engine testing for Flight 15, some cryo-proof and catch testing for Flight 16, and lifted the top deck deluge plates onto Pad 1’s Launch Mount.

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2026-10-30T15:15:09.502671-07:00

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