Longer and more structured: the analysis, the figures and the story behind the news.
On 28 September 2026, NASA and Boeing set out what comes next for Starliner: an uncrewed flight to the ISS in December or January, then astronauts in 2028. On an Atlas V, for as long as any are left.
On 22 September, Microsoft handed development of the next Halo to Activision and cut a further 268 jobs across its Xbox studios. The series is thus moving into its third home in twenty-five years; the archivist has had to start a fresh index card.
Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday will open on the same day, 16 December in France and the 18th in North America, and Denis Villeneuve’s film has secured the IMAX screens for three weeks. Shut out of those auditoriums, Disney has launched its own large-format certification: if you can’t make the screen bigger, make the label bigger.
Google will fund power uprates at four Georgia Power reactors, in the US state of Georgia, adding about 96 electrical megawatts. Why build a new power station when you can ask the old ones to dig a little deeper?
The LINK robot, sent to raise the orbit of the Swift space telescope, re-entered the atmosphere on 25 September without ever managing to grab it. Swift, for its part, has switched all three of its instruments back on: if it has to fall, it may as well fall with its eyes open.
