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By Make Tech Easier Editorial · Oct 31, 2026
In 2021, Boeing’s MQ-25 drone passed 325 pounds of fuel to a Navy Super Hornet
- Oct 31, 2026 Zinc creep in the cable spelter sockets brought down the 57 year old Arecibo telescope in 2020, a… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 31, 2026 How NASA’s Perseverance Rover Pinpoints Its Location on Mars Using a Processor From Mid-2010s Smartphones By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 30, 2026 NASA's Super Guppy Turbine opens its hinged nose 110 degrees onto a hold 25 feet across and 111 feet… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 29, 2026 SpaceX's Dragon Grace docked with the ISS at 7:05 p.m By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 29, 2026 On October 11, 2026, NASA's Perseverance rover drove 299.6 feet and pushed its odometer to 28.10 miles… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 29, 2026 The H-4 Hercules weighed 193 tonnes and spanned 97.51 metres, the largest flying boat ever built, and it… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 29, 2026 USS Abraham Lincoln came home to San Diego on 8 October after 321 days away, including 286 consecutive… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 29, 2026 BIC puts a hole in the cap of the Cristal ballpoint to meet ISO 11540 / BS 7272-1, standards aimed at… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 29, 2026 Naval engineer Richard James was developing springs to steady instruments on ships in 1943 when a… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 29, 2026 Six Norsepower rotor sails, each 35 m high and 5 m across, were installed in Shanghai on Spirit of… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 28, 2026 Swiss crews spent 17 years boring the 57 km Gotthard Base Tunnel, open since 2016 at a cost of CHF 12.2… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 28, 2026 CERN engineers cut the first magnet interconnection in the week of 17 September 2026 and will strip out… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 28, 2026 Both main cables on the Golden Gate Bridge hold 80,000 miles of galvanized steel wire, 27,572 wires per… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 27, 2026 Pioneering Spirit lifts entire offshore platform topsides of up to 60,000 tonnes in a single lift… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 27, 2026 Big Muskie, the Ohio Power Company dragline near Chandlersville, Ohio, weighed 13,000 tons, stood over… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 27, 2026 The cyanoacrylates Harry Coover was testing as clear plastic gun sights at Eastman Kodak in 1942 were… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 26, 2026 When the nuclear-powered USS Colorado joined the US Navy in 2018, sailors used an Xbox controller to aim… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 26, 2026 Two Guinness World Records went to the same machine at once after BELAZ presented the 75710 in September… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 24, 2026 Roc spans 385 feet from wingtip to wingtip, takes off at 1.3 million pounds on six engines taken from… By Make Tech Easier Editorial