While Viasat has no plans to join the rush to deploy orbital data centers, the satellite operator sees a role providing the ...

We helped usher in the modern era of AI in NGA. I became the agency’s first chief AI officer. I set the agency strategy for ...

When I was a senior in high school, I saw a picture of the space shuttle landing on a runway on the front page of my hometown ...

I’m forever grateful to NASA for giving me an amazing 10 years. After four to five years in astrophysics, I was able to go to ...

After that, I came back to the D.C.-area to work in Earth Science. It was a big change. I was no longer the manager of a ...

Gen. Jason Bartolomei, the AFRL commander, came out to visit just before I retired. He said, “You guys are strategically ...

Leaders can be replaced; institutional knowledge cannot. I am privileged to have had the chance to serve in the U.S.

Serving the country and pushing the boundaries of human existence is very purposeful.' ...

At least 5,000 federal workers left their positions in the U.S. space workforce last year. These are some of their stories.

An abridged version of this article first appeared in the February 2026 issue of SpaceNews Magazine.

NASA has selected two Earth science missions for development, one focused on studying the atmosphere and the other on terrestrial ecosystems and ice.

Over the moon and under the radar ...