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What's Happening in Aerospace
Industry news, career insights, and aerospace history — written for students.
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Turn Your Aerospace Project Into an Internship Application
Turn an aerospace project into clear internship application evidence: a focused project page, honest resume bullets, and an interview explanation you can defend.
Read more →Which Engineering Major Actually Pays Off in 2026?
Aerospace, electrical, or mechanical engineering? Federal Reserve, BLS, and NACE data show aerospace grads have the lowest unemployment, electrical engineers get the strongest offers, and mechanical engineering has the most openings.
Read more →Test Your JSBSim Reinforcement Learning Autopilot
Build a credible flight-control portfolio project by checking your JSBSim environment, comparing an AI autopilot with a baseline, and explaining where it fails.
Read more →The Aircraft Maintenance Language That Makes AI Write Clearly
Andrej Karpathy found a fix for wordy AI answers: ask the model to write in ASD-STE100, the controlled English made for aircraft maintenance manuals. Here is how it works and how to use it.
Read more →Shield AI Selects the Seattle Area for X-BAT Production
Shield AI names Des Moines, Washington, as X-BAT's production home. Seattle-area internships and entry-level engineering roles already offer students a concrete way to explore the company.
Read more →Your First Aerospace AI Project: Learn From NASA Engine Data
Explore predictive maintenance with NASA's simulated engine data. A student project guide to reading sensor trends, testing a model fairly, and explaining what its predictions can support.
Read more →The FAA Academy: What to Expect Before You Go
A practical guide to the next stage of an ATC career: paid training, housing, travel, study habits, and the move from the FAA Academy to facility training.
Read more →Planning an ATC Career? Start With These Updated Guides
Compare entry routes and school costs, prepare for the ATSA with a printable checklist, and explore sourced workforce and pay figures. Here's what's new in our air traffic control pathway.
Read more →"We Will Take Every One of You": The Aircraft Mechanic Shortage Is a Wide-Open Door — Here's How You Get the License
North America is short about 17,000 aircraft technicians, with the gap projected to peak near 30,000 in 2028. Employers are recruiting students before they graduate. What the A&P certificate is, the three ways to get one, and what the job actually pays.
Read more →Becoming an Air Traffic Controller Just Got Faster: The FAA's 5-Step Hiring Process, Explained
The FAA cut controller hiring from eight steps to five, raised trainee pay 30%, and is hiring at record scale. What changed, what the five steps are, and how to be ready before the next window — the last one stopped taking applications within two days.
Read more →AI Is Coming to the Control Tower: What the FAA's New Air-Traffic System Means for Future Controllers
The FAA is poised to put AI in air-traffic management — a system that flags traffic conflicts about two hours ahead instead of fifteen minutes. Here's what it does, who's building it, and what it means if you're eyeing an air-traffic-control career.
Read more →The System, Not the Platform: Why Aerospace Careers Are Shifting From Single Vehicles to Networks
In modern aerospace, the single drone, plane, or satellite matters less than the network it plugs into. Here's why that shift is reshaping careers — and the skill clusters that travel across every platform.
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China Just Put $8.4 Billion Behind Data Centers in Orbit. A New Career Domain Just Opened.
A Beijing startup backed by $8.4B in state credit wants a 1-gigawatt data center in orbit by 2035. Compute is moving off the planet — and a new career domain is forming.
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Boeing's Chinook Just Landed Itself — What That Means for the Next Rotorcraft Careers
Boeing's A2X software guided an Army CH-47 through its final approach with no pilot on the controls. Autonomy is creeping into every cockpit — here's how to prepare.
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Two Billionaires Bet on Asteroid Mining. They Lost. The Industry They Started Is Just Getting Going.
Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries burned through hundreds of millions — but they proved the economics aren't crazy.
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The Rocket Gets You There. The Medicine Keeps You Alive.
NASA has identified 30+ health risks for astronauts — and none are fully solved. That's a career opportunity.
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The $5 Billion Phone Call That Changed Satellite Communications Forever
A $5B satellite phone system crashed spectacularly — then a $25M rescue built the backbone of military comms.
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Nvidia Just Made Space a Computing Platform — Here's What That Means for Careers
Nvidia's new Space-1 module puts AI processing in orbit. The space industry just became a software industry too.
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The Race to Put Data Centers in Orbit Is Getting Very Real — and Very Contested
88,000 satellites. A million more from SpaceX. Nvidia building space chips. Is orbital computing the future — or magical thinking?
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Tiny Lab-Grown Organs Could Replace Astronauts as Space Health Guinea Pigs
Tissue chips — miniature lab-grown organs — are changing how NASA studies the dangers of deep space without risking crew.
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Half a Billion Dollars Says Space Stations Are the Next Big Career Bet
Vast just raised $500M to build a commercial space station. Here's why that's a signal for your career.
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