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For decades, building a space mission meant a hard choice between two imperfect models. The first was the traditional prime: capable, proven, and thorough, but slow and expensive. Customers paid

TAMPA, Fla. — Asset-financing specialist SLI plans to buy two small geostationary satellites from two-year-old U.S. startup AscendArc in a deal valued at more than $200 million, betting that operators

WASHINGTON — Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy, the U.S. Space Force’s top acquisition officer, told an audience of space industry executives Dec. 2 that the Pentagon’s future in orbit will depend

WASHINGTON — Shield AI, a defense technology firm known for autonomous aircraft software, is venturing into the space sector through a partnership with Sedaro, a startup whose cloud-based simulation tools

Readers of this magazine have known for years what we, as investors, have also known for years: that the space sector is not some marginal realm of human activity, to

HELSINKI — China’s Landspace carried out the first launch of its reusable Zhuque-3 rocket late Tuesday, successfully achieving orbit, but failing with a first stage landing attempt. The first Zhuque-3

Each year, SpaceNews selects the people, programs and technologies that have most influenced the direction of the space industry in the past year. Started in 2017, our annual celebration recognizes

Each year, SpaceNews selects the people, programs and technologies that have most influenced the direction of the space industry in the past year. Started in 2017, our annual celebration recognizes