CAE's President and Chief Executive Office Matthew Bromberg speaks during an event to mark the completion of the airline's flight training center, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, in northeast Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
United Airlines Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby talks to reporters during an event to mark the completion of the airline's flight training center, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, in northeast Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Flight simulators built by CAE are shown during an event to mark the completion of United Airline's flight training center, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, in northeast Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
United Airlines Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby, right, chats with Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., during an event to mark the completion of the airline's flight training center, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, in northeast Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
United Airlines Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby, right, and CAE's President and Chief Executive Office Matthew Bromberg, center, confer with Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., during an event to mark the completion of the airline's flight training center, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, in northeast Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
United Airlines Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby speaks to reporters during an event, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, in northeast Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
United Airlines Captain Mike Pritt, front, guides participants in learning to fly an airplane during an event to mark the completion of the airline's flight training center, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, in northeast Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
United Airlines Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby, right, chats with U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., during an event, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, in northeast Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
United Airlines Captain Mike Pritt demonstrates how to fly an Airbus 320 in a flight simulator during an event to mark the completion of the airline's flight training center, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, in northeast Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
The mission to save NASA's sinking space telescope has been called off. NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies announced the news Wednesday. The startup company says its Link spacecraft will not attempt to capture the Swift Observatory and boost it to a higher orbit because of problems with controlling the rescue craft. NASA says this means the telescope will plunge through the atmosphere later this year. NASA paid $30 million for Katalyst to try to lift the aging telescope to a longer-lasting orbit. Intense solar activity caused Swift to lose altitude faster than expected.
