Wizz Air becomes Europe’s first budget airline to put Starlink on its planes
Wizz Air becomes Europe’s first budget airline to put Starlink on its planes

Cheap flights and fast Wi-Fi have rarely gone together, and Europe’s budget airlines have had a good excuse: the maths has not added up. Wizz Air is betting that is about to change. The Hungarian ultra-low-cost carrier said on Monday it will offer Star…

A former NASA chief is taking Quantum Space public at $1.2bn to build spacecraft for the next space race
A former NASA chief is taking Quantum Space public at $1.2bn to build spacecraft for the next space race

The last time Jim Bridenstine shaped America’s space ambitions, he ran NASA. Now he is betting he can build the hardware for the next phase of the space race, and he wants public investors to fund it. Quantum Space, the Maryland startup Bridenstine now…

A UK startup just raised $18.5 million to fly satellites where nobody else can
A UK startup just raised $18.5 million to fly satellites where nobody else can

Between commercial aircraft at 10km and conventional satellites at 500km lies a band of near-Earth space that has never been used commercially. Very low Earth orbit, or VLEO, sits at 200 to 300km, an altitude historically reserved for spy satellites an…

NASA will wear high-tech Prada long johns to the Moon
NASA will wear high-tech Prada long johns to the Moon

We’ve seen Axiom Space and Prada’s collaboration on the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit. Now the company has revealed the Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment (LCVG) that astronauts will wear underneath it when Artemis IV returns humans to the Moon in 2028. The LCVG is the all-important base layer that will keep the crew […]

Astronauts reportedly took shelter after work on Russia’s leaky ISS module triggered concerns

Astronauts aboard the ISS reportedly took precautionary shelter measures after repair work on Russia’s long-troubled Zvezda module raised fresh concerns about air leaks.

Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

The companies announced the deal on Friday, just one week ahead of SpaceX’s historic IPO.

Russia readies a smaller Starlink, and a 2027 deadline it keeps moving
Russia readies a smaller Starlink, and a 2027 deadline it keeps moving

Russia intends to switch on a commercial version of its homegrown answer to Starlink next year, according to people familiar with the programme cited by Reuters, the latest milestone in a project that has been promising to arrive for most of a decade. …

NASA tells astronauts to shelter in SpaceX Dragon due to new ISS leaks

The space agency says Roscosmos has discovered new leaks in the Russian service module that it is trying to repair.

Defense tech, AI, and fundraising take center stage at StrictlyVC Los Angeles on June 18

With just two weeks to go, StrictlyVC Los Angeles is quickly approaching. On Thursday, June 18, at The Aerospace Corporation Campus in El Segundo, investors, founders, and tech leaders will gather for an evening of conversation exploring some of the mo…

Elon Musk is steamrolling Wall Street to become a trillionaire
Elon Musk is steamrolling Wall Street to become a trillionaire

Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Ryan Mac, a technology reporter at The New York Times and coauthor of the excellent book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, which came out in 2024. I can’t recommend it enough.  I wanted to have Ryan on the show because we’re on the cusp of the SpaceX […]