Last year’s back-to-back station-cargo launch failures have not dimmed growing commercial interest in station research.

A top priority for the Indian space agency is to complete the launch of its seven-satellite regional navigation constellation.

To avoid being marginalized, the U.S. space community needs to make key issues part of the 2016 presidential campaign.

The European launch consortium, which today lifts more than half of the world’s communications satellites, says the recent successful recovery of a Falcon 9 core stage is only the first step for SpaceX in reusing the already-low-cost rocket.

From the commercial-aircraft ramp-up and small-UAV explosion to U.S. defense budget pressures and Europe’s response to Russian aggression, 2016 will be a dynamic year for the aerospace and defense industry.

Tiny ADS-B for UAVs; better materials, lighter diesels; NASA seeks clean-sheet thinking on 2035 airspace; Basque partners combine additive and subtractive

A320neo and C Series enter service; F-35A goes operational, JAS 39E flies; emissions measures and tracking mandates for aviation; contract protests and consolidation pressures; unmanned aircraft and suborbital spaceplanes—things will come in pairs in 2016.

Countering UAS, beating brownout, robotic copilots, communication by laser, and building-block satellites are among advances that could make the news in 2016 and beyond.