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Evening Standard
Technology
Rochelle Travers and Rachelle Abbott

OPINION - How ‘unreliable’ flight data put NATS into manual mode: Tech and Science Daily podcast

The boss of National Air Traffic Services - also known as Nats - has confirmed that 'unreliable' flight data is responsible for the ongoing widespread travel disruption.

Nats says it is working closely with the Civil Aviation Authority to provide a preliminary report into what happened to Transport Secretary Mark Harper - and the conclusions of the inquiry will be made public.

It also confirmed it could have been just a single flight plan which caused the issue.

India is set to launch a spacecraft to the Sun after a successful Moon landing. The country’s space agency Isro is set to launch the new satellite this week - the Aditya-L1 satellite.

Details on your second chance this month to see a rare super blue moon. It marks the first time in five years that two supermoons have appeared in the same month, a rarity astronomers don't expect to see again until 2037.

And the rest

Why the next Nintendo Direct is all about Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Apple’s September event will see the iPhone 15 launch as well as a blowout showcase of new products and the Government is urged to protect songs and books from AI mining.

Plus, analysis of 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite sheds light on the early solar system, a controversial Havard professor says scientists have found materials in the sea from outside Solar System, and why it looks like ‘beer goggles’ aren’t really a thing.

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