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  • Thursday, 28 November, 2019
    Space exploration
    Europe’s joint space programme gets rise in spending

    €12.5bn over three years to finance Mars missions, asteroid defence and climate oversight

  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2019
    AnalysisThe Big Read
    Vulnerable satellites: the emerging arms race in space

    With few rules to guide conduct, powerful nations are taking measures to protect a cog of communications technology

  • Friday, 1 November, 2019
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Tourism is one small step on our way to the stars

    Interstellar opportunities abound beyond flying trips for the rich

  • Monday, 28 October, 2019
    Virgin Galactic LLC
    Virgin Galactic hits $2.3bn valuation in public launch

    Shares in Richard Branson’s lossmaking space tourism company end trading debut flat

  • Monday, 28 October, 2019
    LexVirgin Galactic LLC
    Virgin Galactic: up and atom Premium

    The shares have got off the ground but the business plan depends on a starry future

  • Sunday, 27 October, 2019
    Virgin Galactic LLC
    Virgin Galactic shares start countdown to IPO

    Sir Richard Branson’s vehicle beats billionaire rivals in market debut space race

  • Monday, 21 October, 2019
    British hypersonic jet technology passes crucial heat test

    Precooling system for Reaction’s Sabre shown to handle the temperatures of Mach 5

  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2019
    Boeing to invest $20m in Virgin Galactic

    Aerospace group signs partnership as Richard Branson’s space venture set to go public

  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2019
    AnalysisNikkei Asian Review
    Nasa chief hits at China’s ‘aggressive’ space activity Premium

    US enlists support from Japan and India for future space exploration

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  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2019
    European space chief pledges to keep UK on board

    Companies assured they can tender for Copernicus programme after Brexit

  • Thursday, 19 September, 2019
    Satellites
    Sky is no limit for new age of flexible satellites

    Thales and Boeing step up mobile market drive amid changing consumer demands

  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2019
    FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
    Blockchain goes extra-terrestrial 

    “Open source is going to outer space!” 

  • Thursday, 12 September, 2019
    Special ReportHow we will live in 2050
    Where will humans live if Earth becomes uninhabitable?

    The Moon, Mars and orbiting colonies are all being explored as possible options

  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2019
    AnalysisNikkei Asian Review
    ispace raises Japan’s innovation hopes Premium

    Founder foresees a multibillion-dollar market for lunar transportation and exploration services

  • Monday, 26 August, 2019
    Space industry calls on Johnson to act on his words

    Trade body wants government to commit £150m a year to innovation fund

  • Monday, 19 August, 2019
    View from the CockpitMark Vanhoenacker
    What today’s pilots owe to space technology

    From navigation systems to managing teams, commercial airlines have learnt a lot from Nasa

  • Friday, 2 August, 2019
    Architecture
    Interplanetary craft: architecture on Mars

    Preparing for missions to Mars requires thinking about the possibility of building structures on the Red Planet

  • Thursday, 25 July, 2019
    Military technology
    France plans lasers to blind enemy satellites

    Minister outlines ‘active defence’ in space and orbiting nano-satellite patrols

  • Thursday, 25 July, 2019
    Chinese space company hails first successful satellite launch

    Mission by privately funded iSpace marks step forward for country’s nascent start-ups

  • Saturday, 20 July, 2019
    InterviewScience fiction books5 min
    'We will return to the Moon': why Apollo's mission was just the beginning

    'The Martian' author Andy Weir says building a long-term lunar base is all about economics

  • Friday, 19 July, 2019
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Men on the Moon merit their golden celebration

    It is time for another lunar landing that includes female astronauts

  • Friday, 19 July, 2019
    The 50th anniversary of the Moon landing
    Which company will win the new space race to the Moon?

    Renewed commercial involvement in lunar exploration could open up a big frontier for the sector

  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2019
    News in Focus podcast10 min listen
    The new lunar mission

    It’s half a century since the launch of Apollo 11, the spacecraft that put the first…

  • Thursday, 11 July, 2019
    Inside BusinessRichard Waters
    Wall Street buckles up for a heady ride on Virgin Galactic

    Space tourism company set to arrive on the stock market with two big characters at the helm

  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2019
    Lex
    Virgin Galactic/Social Capital: to affinity and beyond Premium
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