Emerging Tech
Peter Thiel is Pushing Donald Trump to Use Private Space Companies at NASA
The move could prove vital in a battle over NASA’s priorities and multi-billion-dollar budget.
Digital Government
Biggest Names in Tech Are Meeting with Donald Trump. They Will Have Much to Discuss
The agenda has not been disclosed, but America’s tech chieftains have a lot to talk about with the incoming president.
Emerging Tech
What a Trump Presidency Means for NASA and Future of Space Exploration
There are billions of dollars of programs and funding at stake.
Emerging Tech
Hacked Emails Show Eric Schmidt Played Crucial Role in Team Hillary’s Election Tech
Schmidt leveraged his Silicon Valley acumen to generate a new source of influence.
Modernization
The Space Industry’s New Bet: Putting an 'App Store' in Orbit
“We want to change the way people interact with space systems, to make it into a software problem instead of a hardware problem."
Digital Government
A Startup’s Constellation of Tiny Satellites is Now Photographing Half of Earth’s Landmass Every Day
Are you ready for the coming era of global transparency?
Emerging Tech
Barack Obama’s Plan For the US to Go to Mars is Six Years Old and Still a Work in Progress
Will it ever be accomplished?
Digital Government
The SpaceX of China Aims to Commercialize a Mysterious Rocket on the World Stage
Landspace, founded in 2015, says it will have its first commercial launch in 2017, an extraordinarily fast pace of development for an orbital rocket.
Emerging Tech
Elon Musk’s Dream of Going to Mars Is SpaceX’s Biggest Strength, and its Biggest Distraction
SpaceX is a company built to go to Mars, but are those ambitions getting in the way of its ability to achieve them?
Emerging Tech
NASA Is Launching a Mission to Visit an Asteroid and Maybe Save the World
The ambitious OSIRIS-REx mission promises to provide new information about our universe to the scientific community.
Emerging Tech
SpaceX’s Lost Rocket Could Upset Global Merger and Delay America’s Human Spaceflight Plans
The fire that burst from the top stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket did more than melt aluminum and crack carbon fiber.
Emerging Tech
A SpaceX Rocket Exploded Before Launch at Cape Canaveral
This could be a major setback for Elon Musk’s space company.
Emerging Tech
China’s New Satellite Puts Quantum Encryption Into Orbit
It’s designed to literally teleport information nearly 750 miles.
Emerging Tech
SpaceX Blasts Off, and Lands Its Fifth Reusable Booster Rocket This Year
In true Olympic spirit, the rocket booster stuck the high-speed landing.
Emerging Tech
US Government Has Approved the First Private Moon Landing
They're hoping to launch in 2017.
Emerging Tech
Watch SpaceX Test-Fire its Reusable Falcon 9 Rocket for the First Time Ever
Elon Musk’s space company has taken another key step toward
Emerging Tech
SpaceX Breaks 2 Records in Latest Mission to International Space Station
This was the company's ninth mission to the ISS.
Emerging Tech
SpaceX Has Landed its Fastest-Flying Rocket Yet on a Floating Platform at Sea
After launching JCSAT-14, SpaceX landed the first stage of its rocket on a floating platform at sea for the second time ever.
Emerging Tech
The Science Behind SpaceX’s Ambitious Plan to Land a Spacecraft on Mars
The project would make SpaceX the first private company to go interplanetary.
Emerging Tech