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  • 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

  • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
    Renewable energy17 min
    Space-based solar power 'could be deployed in 10 years'

    Elon Musk called it the stupidest idea ever. The FT's Peggy Hollinger looks at whether space-based solar power can move beyond science fiction

  • Monday, 22 November, 2021
    Smiths Group PLC
    Smiths CEO defends conglomerate structure as GE and Toshiba break up

    New head of FTSE 100 industrial group says performance rather than structure needs improvement

  • Wednesday, 17 November, 2021
    Inside BusinessPeggy Hollinger
    Russian satellite debris is a wake-up call for emerging space industry

    New rules are urgently needed to govern the behaviour of companies and nations

  • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
    Satellites
    Russia denies anti-satellite missile test put astronauts at risk

    Moscow maintains safety is its priority as Washington condemns ‘reckless and irresponsible behaviour’

  • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
    Oneweb Global Ltd
    OneWeb paid almost $50m in investors’ fees for bankruptcy deal

    Satellite internet group has raised $2.7bn since rescue by UK government and India’s Bharti

  • Sunday, 14 November, 2021
    News in-depthSatellites
    Satellite groups face race to scale up or become space junk

    Billionaire enthusiasts and new technology have brought valuations down to earth in a fragmented market

  • Monday, 8 November, 2021
    Satellites
    Viasat lands Britain’s Inmarsat in $7.3bn deal

    More merger activity expected as satellite sector consolidation hots up

  • Monday, 1 November, 2021
    Sinead O'Sullivan
    Privatising astronauts means more will boldly go where few went before

    Increased access to the coveted title signals the space sector’s tilt towards a largely commercial endeavour

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