Space launches

The exterior of "The Wormhole" factory.Relativity SpaceLONG BEACH, California – It was a few days into the new year yet Relativity Space's factory was anything but quiet, a din of activity with massive 3D printers humming and the clanging of construction ringing out.Now about eight years on from its founding, Relativity continues to grow as it pursues a novel way of manufacturing rockets out of mostly 3D-printed structures and parts. Relativity believes that its approach will make building orbital-class rockets much…

Xi Jinping once declared China should "prioritize innovation" and be on the "cutting-edge (of) frontier technologies, modern engineering technologies, and disruptive technologies."Since that speech in 2017, Beijing has spoken about technologies it wants to boost its prowess in, ranging from artificial intelligence to 5G technology and semiconductors.Five years since Xi's address at the Communist Party of China's last National Congress, the global reality for the world's second-largest economy has transformed. It comes…