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  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    The Big Read
    The corporate feud over satellites that pitted the west against China

    How a clash of cultures — and geostrategic interests — sank a German-Chinese joint venture competing in the new space race

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    News in-depthElon Musk
    Musk’s Starlink aid to Ukraine triggers scrutiny in China over US military links

    ‘Silicon Valley Iron Man’ is under pressure over satellites as Chinese rivals close in on Tesla

  • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
    Transcript: Interview with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti from space

    Italian astronaut talks to the FT about life on the International Space Station, Russia’s war in Ukraine, and the dangers of space junk

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    Brexit
    European Space Agency offers UK alternative to EU’s Copernicus project

    Britain looks to channel £750mn budget set aside for Earth observation programme elsewhere if Brussels blocks it

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    17 min
    FT interviews astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti in space

    ‘We are devastated … but we have something precious to preserve’

  • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
    John Thornhill
    Ordinary Ukrainians wage war with digital tools and drones

    Data sharing is a valuable intelligence source — but civilians risk becoming targets

  • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
    Inside BusinessPeggy Hollinger
    To explore brave new worlds, astronauts need smart new suits

    Nasa’s gamble to issue contract to private sector could herald a radical change in costs of living and working in space

  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    How space debris threatens modern life

    A failure to regulate low Earth orbit could have disastrous consequences

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    John Thornhill
    Robots in rockets outperform ‘spam in a can’ astronauts

    The cost of launching humans into space is hard to justify as unmanned trips get faster, cheaper and safer

  • Sunday, 17 April, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast26 min listen
    US-China Tech Race: shock and awe

    How Beijing got ahead in hypersonic weapons

  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
    News in-depth
    The space(port) race: Asia jostles for rocket launch business

    Japanese prefecture famed for hot springs will be base for Virgin Orbit of the US

  • Thursday, 3 March, 2022
    Oneweb Global Ltd
    UK-backed OneWeb suspends Russian satellite launches

    Decision illustrates that fallout from the invasion of Ukraine has spread to space

  • Tuesday, 1 March, 2022
    InterviewOneweb Global Ltd
    UK stake in OneWeb no guarantee production will shift from US, big shareholder says

    Bharti Enterprises chief warns satellite manufacturing may not move despite government’s $500mn investment

  • Sunday, 27 February, 2022
    Lex
    Lunar property rights: buy me to the moon Premium content

    If you can buy a home in the metaverse, why not on the moon?

  • Wednesday, 23 February, 2022
    Inside BusinessPeggy Hollinger
    Star wars: why Nasa objects to Elon Musk’s space race

    Agency warns over the impact of plan to launch 30,000 more satellites into orbit

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    Virgin Galactic
    Spac promoter Chamath Palihapitiya steps down as Virgin Galactic chair

    Prolific backer of blank cheque companies departs board of Richard Branson’s space travel venture

  • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
    Sinead O'Sullivan
    A headlong rush into space investing should be met with caution

    Hype around SpaceX may drive demand for a few momentum stocks, but the landscape is fairly barren

  • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
    Satellites
    EU takes on SpaceX and Amazon with its own satellite internet system

    Brussels seeks standalone coverage despite internal watchdog previously raising doubts over proposals

  • Monday, 7 February, 2022
    OneWeb founder plans to launch 100,000 satellites in space comeback

    Greg Wyler says E-Space’s vast ‘mesh’ network will clean up debris and bring it back to earth

  • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
    Virgin Group Ltd
    Virgin Orbit’s Nasdaq listing falls short of fundraising target

    Richard Branson’s parent group forced to inject up to $100m for merger with Spac to go ahead

  • Wednesday, 29 December, 2021
    Elon Musk rejects claims he is squeezing out rivals in space

    Tech entrepreneur says space ‘is extremely enormous’ with room for ‘tens of billions’ of satellites

  • Tuesday, 28 December, 2021
    Elon Musk
    Chinese social media users blast Elon Musk over near miss in space

    Criticism comes after Beijing’s UN mission says SpaceX Starlink satellites nearly hit space station

  • Thursday, 9 December, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The world needs to set new rules in space

    Elon Musk’s clout in commercial satellites could give him a strong voice on global norms

  • Sunday, 5 December, 2021
    Elon Musk is setting the rules in space, ESA chief warns

    Billionaire’s thousands of satellites risk crowding other operators out of low earth orbits

  • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen
    Russia’s anti-satellite test is a wake-up call to mankind

    Without better regulation of space, we risk turning Earth’s celestial neighbourhood into a junk yard

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