A Critical Infrastructure Under Strain Space has quietly become the infrastructure beneath modern life. From financial transactions synchronised by satellite timing to military operations reliant on secure communications, the global

Orbital data centers have quickly moved from hypothetical to seemingly inevitable, and opportunities and challenges are coming into focus fast. As players raise millions to drive the race to establish

When Congress passed a fiscal year 2026 “minibus” appropriations bill in January, much of the space community breathed a sigh of relief. Congress had rejected the steep cuts proposed by

A flurry of commercial innovation has left the U.S. government with no shortage of sensors and AI-driven insights to monitor the increasingly packed and contested space environment. The challenge is

(Note: This article went to press for the April issue of SpaceNews Magazine before NASA announced potential changes to the CLD program.) NASA signaled last summer it planned to accelerate

WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency awarded a contract worth up to $49 million to Capella Space to build two satellites for a demonstration of space-based military communications, the agency