Emerging Tech

SpaceX's Reusable Rocket Makes Historic Landing

Falcon 9’s successful mission shows how the cost of space access is headed down as reusable rockets head up.

Emerging Tech

The Reason SpaceX Keeps Aborting Launches

The last two failures to launch were linked to the upgraded rocket SpaceX is using, which relies on “superchilled” liquid oxygen to get an extra thrust into orbit.

Digital Government

Who Left a Gigantic US Voter Database Sitting Naked on the Internet?

Information on more than 190 million U.S. voters has been floating around the Internet.

Emerging Tech

The Latest SpaceX Launch Could be Make or Break for Elon Musk

Since the company’s June to mission the International Space Station ended in an explosive failure, SpaceX has been forced to delay its commercial manifest, costing it and its clients millions of dollars.

Cybersecurity

Bernie Sanders Has His Own Computer Scandal: A Data Breach Exposed Hillary’s Secret Info

The consequences of the glitch—which originated with Democratic campaign vendor NGP-VAN—could prove devastating to Sanders.

Digital Government

DARPA Kills Program That Would Have Launched Satellites with Fighter Jets

The next-generation rocket fuel involved turned out to be a little too explosive.

Emerging Tech

The Tech Start-Up Running Hillary Clinton’s Campaign

The Groundwork, started by Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt, plays a major role in Clinton’s digital efforts.

Emerging Tech

SpaceX Booked its First Moon Mission—and it Uses Ridesharing

Designed by nonprofit SpaceIL, the unmanned dishwasher-sized probe will attempt to land on the moon, transmit digital pictures and video back to earth, and “hop” 500 meters across its surface.

Emerging Tech

Elon Musk Has Launched a Competition to Build Pods for His Futuristic Hyperloop

The Hyperloop is a solar-powered pneumatic mass-transit system Musk hopes will replace high-speed rail as a regional people-mover.

Digital Government

SpaceX Has Broken the Monopoly on US National Security Launches

The move is another milestone in the development of SpaceX from start up to a legitimate aerospace company.

Digital Government

US Has Space Experts Worried About an Extraterrestrial Land Grab

Plans to make money in space are missing one of the fundamental ingredients to any business: property rights.

Digital Government

Secret US Military Space Drone Heads Back to Orbit

The flying robot looks like a shrunken down version of the Space Shuttle—and we still don’t know exactly what it will do up there.

Emerging Tech

SpaceX’s Mission Today Tested if it Can Protect Astronauts on its Spaceship

SpaceX has to prove it can get astronauts away from its rocket as fast as possible in the event of an emergency.

Emerging Tech

Jeff Bezos Has a Rocket Now, too

Blue Origin, the space company created by the Amazon founder, had its first successful test flight yesterday.

Emerging Tech

The Latest Disruptive Space Technology Is a Battery-Powered Rocket Engine

The Electron battery will be focused on lifting the new generation of miniature satellites weighing as little as 2 kg that some entrepreneurs say they will use to create the infrastructure for a global internet network.

Emerging Tech

US Government Is Getting Ready for the Commercialization of the Moon

The Federal Aviation Administration has started laying plans to license U.S. businesses to operate on the moon, Reuters reports.

Digital Government

SpaceX Founder Drops Lawsuit Against Air Force, Will Compete for Future Satellite Contracts

The US government is the world’s largest spender on space access, so its contracts remain a key point of competition for space companies already battling for private satellite business.