PayPal’s Elon Musk Is About to Trash the Pentagon’s Space Monopoly
An upstart rocket company is one satellite launch away from busting open the Pentagon’s creaky old space program. California-based SpaceX could soon win the first battle of a bitter industrial rivalry that Pentagon insiders have taken to calling “the launch wars.” The implications are huge for American space power.... Read more
Air Force’s Screwed-Up Satellite Causing Headaches All Around
One of the Air Force’s most secretive spy satellites isn’t working as designed. And that could heighten tension between the Air Force—which is growing tired of the office that developed the partially broken spacecraft—and the program’s supporters in Congress. To be clear, we don’t know exactly which of America’s... Read more