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 flight this month. But our long national spaceport nightmare is just beginning. The number of commercial…

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 sensors to understand what’s happening. But there’s an obstacle when it comes to the fighting between…

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, forcing arbitrageurs to search for higher yields. Accordingly, in the last several months, investors…

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 does. On Oct. 26, NASA administrator Bill Nelson stopped by Blue Origin’s engine production facility in…

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 point. The Fed was widely expected to stand pat today, and it did. Investors also were watching to see…

US weapons sales are growing, but citizen spending is the story 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 new houses—but not cash flowing to…

As Israeli authorities have documented the results of the shocking attacks launched by Hamas earlier this month, it’s become clear many of the hostages taken back to Gaza by the Islamic militant group aren’t Israeli. More than half of the estimated…

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, a Czech Air Force pilot who visited the Salyut space station in 1978. Now, 45 years later, we’re about…

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 only exceeded during the burst of pandemic spending. But the reason for so much borrowing isn’t…

The in-space manufacturing business has a delivery problem. The hardest part of making something in space might just be getting back to Earth again. Varda Space Industries, an LA startup, launched its first prototype factory into orbit in June. The…

Apple, Meta, and Google have all mulled businesses based on satellites orbiting the Earth, but last week Amazon became the first tech giant to actually begin operating computers in space. The company launched two prototype satellites for its Kuiper…

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 come? The space company revealed a new vehicle called Blue Ring, effectively a space tug on steroids. Lars…

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 this time, according to NASA, is that people are going to stay, bringing the tools to allow for…

I Among 30,000 asteroids in our solar system, Psyche was discovered in 1852 orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. In 2015, humanity decided to visit it with a robot. The mission is scheduled to launch Oct. 13 at 10:19 am ET. II The mission comes from…

The attacks launched by Hamas against Israel leveraged modern technology: rockets, drones, and paragliders, not to mention mobile phone cameras and internet connections to broadcast their crimes to the world. Where did the money for all this come…

There’s a lot about Bidenomics that represents a departure from the US economic status quo, most notably the administration’s willingness to engage in industrial policy by subsidizing efforts to lessen dependence on fossil fuels and bring the…

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 at rival star cruisers, in real life we’ll (hopefully) use them mainly to stay in touch. Militaries,…

Sierra Space’s $290 million series B round, mostly from Japanese strategic investors, makes me wonder if the folks allocating capital to risky businesses are regaining their appetite for space. Sierra says that the $1.7 billion it’s raised across its…

Amazon veteran Dave Limp will take over Bezos' space conglomerate 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 division, will succeed Bob Smith, who…

US prosecutors say New Jersey senator Robert Menendez is a crook, and one of his victims is the meat-consuming population of Egypt. The senator, who has denied the allegations and refused calls to resign, is accused of participating in an…