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.

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

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

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

SpaceX Plans to Head for Mars as Soon as 2018

The Mars mission, which will take about six months, is intended to give the company data about landing heavy payloads on Mars with rocket engines—a necessity for human colonization.