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Federal aviation regulators are ordering United Airlines to step up inspections of all Boeing 777s equipped with the type of engine that suffered a catastrophic failure over Denver on Saturday. United said it is temporarily removing those aircraft from service. The announcements come a day after United Airlines Flight 328 had to make an emergency …

Detroit — Warick Richardson was sitting in a plastic chair in a storefront with a bashed-in window, trying without any notable success to sleep. He had just spent hours cleaning up broken panes. He was thinking about hungry people. Richardson, 50, is not yet a success story, if you judge by what’s in the till …

The Long March 5B rocket lifting off from WenchangPhoto: STR/AFP via Getty Images A large, out-of-control piece of space debris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean yesterday, passing over much of the United States. China launched the the Long March 5B rocket on May 5 from the Wenchang launch site in order to deploy a test …

Chinese army personnel have helped to clear debris made by protesters at Hong Kong Baptist University in Kowloon Tong. PLA personnel clear debris by Hong Kong Baptist University in Kowloon Tong. Photo: Kris Cheng/HKFP. The cleanup operation from 1pm on Saturday saw crowds shift bricks and barricades which had accumulated on Junction Road over the …

Every week, the readers of our space newsletter, The Airlock, send in their questions for our space reporter Neel V. Patel to answer. This week: space debris. Reader question As is clear from last week’s question about sending Earth’s trash into space, we know that we have quite a lot of debris in orbit, much …

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