New Space Economy

SpaceX told investors in 2026 that it had more than 9,600 Starlink broadband and mobile satellites in low Earth orbit as of March 31, 2026, with about 10.3 million subscribers and service in 164 countries. That scale makes SpaceX Starlink technology, markets, financials, road map, and competition a single connected story rather than separate topics. Starlink is no longer just a ...

The 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey reported that 84% of respondents were using or planning to use artificial intelligence tools in their development process, with 51% of professional developers using them daily. That data point marks a practical shift in software work. Artificial intelligence is no longer a side tool for experiments, documentation drafts, or occasional cod...

More than 8 million species share Earth with humans, yet fluent two-way conversation with another species remains out of reach. That fact gives the question of how humans might communicate with extraterrestrial intelligence a sharper edge. It is easy to imagine radio telescopes, lasers, mathematics, and patient signal analysis doing what ordinary interspecies contact has never d...

On June 18, 2026, Space.com reported that Xona Space Systems’ Pulsar-0 satellite had mapped widespread GPS interference over Europe and parts of the Middle East from low Earth orbit. The finding matters because the spacecraft was not measuring the problem from an aircraft, ship, smartphone, or ground monitoring site. It was seeing degraded navigation reception from roughly 500 k...

In September 2001, SpaceRef profiled Elon Musk as a new Mars Society supporter who had pledged $100,000 to the organization and joined its board. The plan attached to that period was not a city, a fleet, or a giant rocket. It was a small robotic greenhouse mission, later known as Mars Oasis, meant to send plant life to Mars and use the resulting images to revive public interest ...