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For the second year running, the world's most profitable airline isn't American. It's Emirates — and the gap isn't closing. Emirates' FY 2025-26 results, announced May 7, posted a $6.2 billion pre-tax profit on a 17.4% margin. That's roughly twice the global airline industry average and well ahead of the best year any US carrier has ever printed. The airline ended the year...

On May 3, 2026, a Bengaluru startup put the world's first OptoSAR satellite into orbit. So why did it take this long? Mission Drishti is the first satellite ever to combine SAR (synthetic aperture radar) and multispectral optical imaging on a single platform — and have both sensors look at the same point on Earth at the same instant. "Syncfused" is GalaxEye's word for it. The res...

The first major US airline liquidation in 20 years happened overnight on May 2, 2026. Was it the Iran war? Or was Spirit already dying? A markets autopsy on the collapse of Spirit Airlines — 34 years, 17,000 jobs, ~5% of US flights, gone in 10 weeks. We trace the timeline from the Feb 28 US-Israel strikes on Iran through the doubling of jet fuel, the $500M Trump rescue that collapsed on Friday nig...