A US space radar company raised $13 million. A Chinese satellite-maker garnered $22 million. A European rocket-builder took in $35 million. Heck, a plan to send a robot to the moon received a $5 million capital injection.
Scientists believe they have found an underground lake of liquid water on Mars, which has space explorers all the more eager to visit.
The White House will no longer tell the public when Donald Trump speaks to foreign heads of government, CNN reported earlier this week.
It’s time for some rocket launches.
He sees it as a good way to save face amidst a heap of bad news.
Thanks, guys.
Dripping toxic chemicals fouled an attempt to test the rocket engines on a Boeing spacecraft designed to replace the space shuttle and carry astronauts to the International Space Station next year.
Tilray, a marijuana conglomerate, went public yesterday on New York’s NASDAQ, with its stock price rising more than 30% today as investors bet on Canada’s decision to legalize adult use of cannabis. It’s the first cannabis producer to make its initial public offering on a US stock exchange.
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin plans to fly its reusable rocket New Shepard from a launch site in Texas for the ninth time today. It will carry scientific payloads as it demonstrates a key safety feature on the path to carrying tourists to the edge of space.
Pressure is rising on Boeing and SpaceX, the two companies trying to prove the US can still fly humans to space. Both are expected to miss a November 2019 deadline for producing spacecraft certified as safe enough to transport astronauts—which means NASA, humiliatingly, could end up locked out of the International Space Station next year.
Soccer has famously started wars and helped end them, but 2018 marks the first time that a country deployed soccer media piracy to attack a political enemy.
The White House announced today president Donald Trump’s intent to nominate James Morhard, a long-time senate aide with no experience in space technology, to be the deputy administrator of NASA.
Donald Trump arrived at the NATO summit in Brussels in an ornery mood.
Do countries with a corruption problem tend to cheat more at sports?
How much space expertise does NASA need in its top office to launch humans safely into space?
It’s been a tough 2018 for aerospace contractor Northrop Grumman, culminating in today’s news that a member of its engineering team with a security clearance is part of a white nationalist group and has been filmed attacking protestors at two different events.
Weeks after calling questions about the vague statement signed by the US and North Korea at a landmark June 12 summit “insulting and ridiculous and frankly ludicrous,” US secretary of state Mike Pompeo is on a plane to Pyongyang to figure out what was agreed to.
Excerpt from audio recordings of Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt during their first moonwalk in 1972:
One of Elon Musk’s most important metrics is how quickly SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 rockets can be ready to fly again. Early tomorrow morning (June 29), they’ll set a new record: A rocket that just over two months ago carried a satellite observatory into orbit will carry a Dragon spacecraft (also re-used) to the International Space Station.
An egotistical president, an influx of foreign cash, and a massive pile of debt led to Sri Lanka handing over an entire port to China in December 2017, on a century-long lease.
Confused about US trade policy? Us, too. Quartz spoke to Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, the senior Democratic lawmaker on the committee that writes US trade law. An edited and condensed version of our conversation follows.
The promise of powerful satellite constellations orbiting hundreds of miles above the earth can seem, well, a little distant. But what if they could make long-haul flights faster?
The Electron rocket has gone to space once before, but the company that built it says today’s launch validates its plans to offer regular commercial service to orbit for small satellites—a goal that governments and companies have sought to realize for decades.
SpaceX has won its first contract to launch a classified military satellite on its Falcon Heavy rocket, beating out rival United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing.
