U.S. space and defense agencies are helping to fund lightweight optics in a project that could produce a hundredfold reduction in the size, weight and power consumption of remote-sensing telescopes.

NASA is installing the most visible element of the James Webb Space Telescope, designed to provide images of the first galaxies ever formed.

Election year windfall funding for NASA will allow work on the Orion crew capsule to proceed more quickly than expected.

Back-to-back landing tests mark rapid pace of private space sector achievements.

Australian researchers pursue a different approach to cutting launch costs—a wing-borne, fly-back booster and a reusable, scramjet-powered second stage.

SpaceX, Sierra Nevada move the needle on reusable-spacecraft technology that could give the orbital economy a shot in the arm.

From NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services-2 award to the Dream Chaser spaceplane, to Space-X’s recent near miss landing in Vandenberg, California, the field of reusable space systems is expanding. Join our editors as they discuss developments and competition in the burgeoning commercial and defense space launch markets.

After years of sole-source launch contracts for the United Launch Alliance, the U.S. Air Force may soon have many options to choose from.