USNS Mercy is one of the U.S. Navy’s most unusual support ships - a converted oil tanker transformed into a massive floating hospital. At roughly 894 feet long, the ship can accommodate around 1,000 ...

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VICTORIA, Seychelles, August 26 (IPS) - Across this vast ocean, the latest monitoring by Mercator Ocean International shows marine heatwave conditions ranging from moderate to severe. At the same time ...

SpaceX is trying to bring a Starship upper stage back to shore for post-flight inspection, but it's not going so well. Reading time 2 minutes It’s been more than two weeks since SpaceX’s Starship ...

The United States has bluntly signaled a deprioritization of the Indian Ocean at a peculiar time. The reversion of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to its former name, U.S. Pacific Command, signifies no ...

More than 800 miles off the coast of Australia, SpaceX crews are working to recover a Starship that has been adrift in the Indian Ocean since a test flight from Starbase last month. It’s floating ...

Space exploration enthusiasts have been tracking the unprecedented journey of SpaceX’s latest Starship prototype, which wound up floating in the Indian Ocean after the company’s latest test flight.

SpaceX's most recent Starship flight test ended with the upper-stage vehicle landing intact in the Indian Ocean. This was the first time a Starship upper-stage survived a flight test without exploding ...

SpaceX's most recent Starship flight test ended with the upper-stage vehicle landing intact in the Indian Ocean. This was the first time a Starship upper-stage survived a flight test without exploding ...

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz in the US-Iran war has brought home how vital maritime trading routes are to a country like Australia, which conducts 99% of its global trade by sea. Protecting ...