$100M donation powers decade-long moonshot to create solar satellites that beam power to Earth
It sounds like a plan concocted by a supervillain, if that villain’s dastardly end was to provide ch ...
Swarm debuts $499 Evaluation Kit for consumers and tinkerers
Satellite connectivity company Swarm’s new product will give anyone the ability to create a messagin ...
Alba Orbital’s mission to image the Earth every 15 minutes brings in $3.4M seed round
Orbital imagery is in demand, and if you think having daily images of everywhere on Earth is going t ...
Stoke Space aims to take reusable rockets to new heights with $9M seed
Many launch providers think reusability is the best way to lower the cost and delay involved in gett ...
SpaceX snags $885M from FCC to serve rural areas with Starlink
The FCC has just published the results of its Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I auction, which ...
Rocket Lab’s next launch will deliver 30 satellites to orbit — and a 3D-printed gnome from Gabe Newell
Rocket Lab’s next mission will put dozens of satellites into orbit using the launch company’s Kick ...
Deep Science: Dog detectors, Mars mappers and AI-scrambling sweaters
Research papers come out at far too rapid a rate for anyone to read them all, especially in the fiel ...
Air Force gives a rare look at the research going to orbit in its X-37B spaceplane
The X-37B spaceplane sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel, and its mysterious past is equally ...
R&D Roundup: Sweat power, Earth imaging, testing ‘ghostdrivers’
I see far more research articles than I could possibly write up. This column collects the most inter ...
R&D Roundup: Smart chips, dream logic and crowdsourcing space
I see far more research articles than I could possibly write up. This column collects the most inter ...