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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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
As Israeli authorities have documented the results of the shocking attacks launched by Hamas earlier this month, it’s become clear many of the...
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,...
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...
The hardest part of making something in space might just be getting back to Earth again.Read more...
Apple, Meta, and Google have all mulled businesses based on satellites orbiting the Earth, but last week Amazon became the first tech giant to...
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...
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...
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...
The attacks launched by Hamas against Israel leveraged modern technology: rockets, drones, and paragliders, not to mention mobile phone cameras and...
There’s a lot about Bidenomics that represents a departure from the US economic status quo, most notably the administration’s willingness to...
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...
Sierra Space’s $290 million series B round, mostly from Japanese strategic investors, makes me wonder if the folks allocating capital to risky...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...