Export controls on space hardware and competition for public funds further complicate space cooperation.

Blue Origin, the startup space company endowed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, has generated a fair amount of smoke and fire at its West Texas test site, but very little publicity.

Following the ISS model, civil space agencies are tapping private partners for spaceflight developments

The Chinese space station is offering a range of opportunities for international coooperation

For Canada’s space sector, a new government, especially one led by the Liberals, would boost the program.

The FAA’s new “best practices” manual draws on its 100 years of aviation safety lessons learned

Intra-nation tensions related to Ukraine situation and other matters have left space partnerships relatively unscathed

Aviation Week looks at the laser technology that the European Data Relay System (EDRS) will use to transmit data via geostationary satellites. EDRS aims to provide nearly uninterrupted data links to low-Earth-orbiting spacecraft and allow ground stations that need it most to receive information in near-real time.