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Tim Fernholz

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How the US is preparing to fight — and win — a war in space

15.02.2024 8

Vox

Tim Fernholz

Our obsession with a certain spaceport on the Texas coast may come to an end if SpaceX’s Starship finally makes its second attempt at an orbital...

09.11.2023 2

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

The US restricts sales of satellite images over just one state—Israel

In modern conflict, like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or the rivalries in the South China Sea, governments, media, and the public turn to satellite...

08.11.2023 20

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

How legendary investors caught the interest rate break

Rising rates are no good for bond traders. Each time the Federal Reserve hikes its benchmark rate, older bonds with lower rates become less valuable,...

03.11.2023 2

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

NASA’s top officials took a tour last week. Their destinations: The companies the space agency hired to put astronauts on the Moon before China...

02.11.2023 1

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

The Fed holds steady in an unprecedented economy

The Federal Reserve’s decision to hold its key interest rate between a range of 5.25% and 5.5% might not have pleased anyone—and that’s kind of...

01.11.2023 2

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

Defense spending isn't what’s driving the US economy

The booming US economy, which grew at a 4.9% annualized rate in the third quarter of this year, can be credited to Barbenheimer, Taylor Swift, a land...

30.10.2023 8

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

Why so many Hamas hostages are from Thailand

As Israeli authorities have documented the results of the shocking attacks launched by Hamas earlier this month, it’s become clear many of the...

26.10.2023 2

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

The first person to fly in another country’s spacecraft, and the first person to go to space who wasn’t from the US or Russia, was Vladimir Remek,...

26.10.2023 2

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

The US is going to have to raise taxes

The US government is borrowing a lot of money at high interest rates. In the 2023 fiscal year, the deficit rose to $1.7 trillion—a number the US...

24.10.2023 2

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

Varda can't yet land its space drugs in the US—but what about Australia?

The hardest part of making something in space might just be getting back to Earth again.Read more...

23.10.2023 2

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

How Amazon became the first tech giant in space

Apple, Meta, and Google have all mulled businesses based on satellites orbiting the Earth, but last week Amazon became the first tech giant to...

20.10.2023 3

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

This week marks Blue Origin announcing a new product without a flashy launch featuring founder and funder Jeff Bezos. Is it a sign of things to...

19.10.2023 1

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

DARPA is asking a $170 billion question about making money on the Moon

The Moon rush has begun—the US, Europe and China are spending billions on plans to return humans to Earth’s favorite satellite. One big difference...

16.10.2023 2

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

IAmong 30,000 asteroids in our solar system, Psyche was discovered in 1852 orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. In 2015, humanity decided to visit it...

12.10.2023 10

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

Cryptocurrency fueled Hamas' war machine

The attacks launched by Hamas against Israel leveraged modern technology: rockets, drones, and paragliders, not to mention mobile phone cameras and...

10.10.2023 5

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

Janet Yellen has a good point about government support of the chip industry

There’s a lot about Bidenomics that represents a departure from the US economic status quo, most notably the administration’s willingness to...

06.10.2023 3

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

One thing science fiction has taught us: We’ll need lasers in space. But if the movies teach us that their most common application is blasting away...

05.10.2023 2

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

Sierra Space’s $290 million series B round, mostly from Japanese strategic investors, makes me wonder if the folks allocating capital to risky...

28.09.2023 9

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

Did Jeff Bezos finally pick the right CEO to get Blue Origin to orbit?

Blue Origin, the space company started 24 years ago by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has a new CEO. Dave Limp, the former head of Amazon’s device...

26.09.2023 2

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

How poor Egyptians paid for senator Bob Menendez's alleged bribes

US prosecutors say New Jersey senator Robert Menendez is a crook, and one of his victims is the meat-consuming population of Egypt.Read more...

25.09.2023 2

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

There’s a special delivery arriving this weekend: A sample of an asteroid collected 220 million miles from Earth when NASA snagged it in 2020. Read...

21.09.2023 2

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

How Turkey is using Starlink to win a Tesla factory

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan asked Elon Musk to build a Tesla factory in his country during a sit-down on the sidelines of the UN General...

18.09.2023 2

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

It’s easy to forget that until recently, building a network of tens of thousands of communications satellites in low earth orbit was seen as an...

07.09.2023 2

Quartz

Tim Fernholz

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