Commercial cargo-carrier upgrade could ship supplies to deep space

Britain’s 25% boost in space spending attracts foreign investment

U.S. commercial imagery provider DigitalGlobe posts electro-optical images of eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region.

Boeing CEO Jim McNerney talked at the company’s headquarters in Chicago with Editor-in-Chief Joseph C.

No doubt there was a lot of eye-rolling at NASA headquarters back in May when the Government Accountability Office faulted the agency for its lack of rigor in estimating life-cycle costs for the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS). Certainly no one there who wants to see the big booster built is eager to draw attention to its price tag. But no one knows the costs of SLS or any of the other hardware NASA needs to fulfill its mandate to explore space.

"Once we have completed the orbit raise, we look forward to procesing and analyzing the scientific data collected onthe atmosphere," says Patrick Martin, ESA's Venus Express mission manager.

In the coming months, Europe’s space community will have to admit it must prepare to pay a high price for a major strategic error.

Life support in space holds lessons for the Earth