Four years after the first Sbirs GEO launch, USAF pushes to get more infrared data to users in the field.

Given budget pressures, space industry increasingly using additive manufacturing to make components more flexibly and at lower cost

"We definitely look forward to the espresso machine," astronaut Scott Kelly, NASA's ISS marathoner, told Russia Today. "I know a lot of people are interested in it."

"These finding have implications for planetary protection policies for future landed spacecraft," according to the Nature Geoscience report. "Cl-bearing brines are very corrosive and this may have implications on spacecraft design and surface operations."

Despite tensions, U.S. and Russia are still cooperating in civil space. Now it’s time to bring China into the fold.

The company is striving to keep average cost of a new Vulcan rocket under $100 million as it preps for competition against SpaceX.

Asteroid-mission development will shape human/machine teaming for exploration.

Preparations are underway to begin testing a small-sat launcher dubbed Electron that would use the turbomachinery and other innovations to hold the cost per mission below $5 million.