{"id":964869,"date":"2026-11-15T02:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T02:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/964869\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T02:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T02:56:08","slug":"world-news-live-updates-spacex-achieves-major-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/964869\/","title":{"rendered":"World news live updates: SpaceX achieves major milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our live coverage of world news. <\/p>\n<p>The US has warned travellers that flight delays and cancellations are expected to continue today after a rare nationwide ground stop sparked chaos at airports across the country and impacted flights from Australia. <\/p>\n<p>FAA chief Bryan Bedford said 12,000 flights were cancelled yesterday and between 4,000 and 5,000 flights are likely to be cancelled today, following Friday\u2019s four-hour grounding of flights \u2013 which officials have blamed on faulty equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think the worst is behind us, but we still have a fair amount of recovery ahead of us,\u201d FAA chief Bryan Bedford said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we will still have delays and cancellations today, but that will set us up for a full recovery tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the cause of the incident at a press conference earlier today, Mr Duffy said maintenance work to upgrade an old copper wire to a high-speed fibre cable caused issues with plane and radar feeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEither through contractor error or a faulty piece of equipment \u2026 it started flooding other routers in our air traffic control system,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the US has floated the possibility of Kyiv ceding land to Moscow in exchange for NATO membership. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the first time this issue had been raised,\u201d Mr Zelensky said.<\/p>\n<p>Read on for more updates. <\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/elon-musk\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Elon Musk\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to our live coverage of world news. 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