Pluto flyby likely to expand the Solar System

Challenges abound, but off-planet manufacturing can expedite exploration

During the Farnborough International Airshow this month, Israel Aerospace Industries CEO and President Joseph Weiss talked with Paris Bureau Chief Amy Svitak, about plans to expand the company’s presence in the global space sector with exports of remote-sensing and communications satellites.

California company sees 5% workforce reduction

After the SpaceX protest, U.S. Air Force seeks more-competitive launch opportunities

Commercial space is the wave of the past

The surface of Mars is the most ambitious target for human explorers in the foreseeable future, given the state of technology, funding and political will today, according to a U.S. National Research Council study team that examined the issue over the past year and a half.

For the first several decades of human space activity, the economically and militarily valuable region of near-Earth orbit seemed like an infinite resource.