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It is time for the U.S. and Russia to bring China inside the space tent.

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.

Satellites enable everything from better weather forecasts to smartphones; we would literally be lost without them.

67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko poses an unexpected challenge for Rosetta mission.

NASA Commercial Crew Contract Contenders Still Have Eyes On Prize

Blue Origin Tackles RD-180 Engine Replacement

SpaceX to continue with engine work whether or not it meets certification deadline

Major developments in Commercial Crew and rocket engines are the subject of this week’s podcast.

Watching our planet from the ISS

RD-180 prototype replacement could be ready to test in 2.5 years

Space industry sees little impact from U.S., European tensions with Moscow

Airbus Defence and Space, has signed as the leader of the industrial team - including Thales Alenia Space as co-prime contractor - a contract with the Armed Forces of the United Arab Emirates (UAEAF) for the development, manufacture and launch of Falcon Eye, a high-performance optical Earth-observation satellite system.

Global space industry leaders say the effect of mounting tensions with Moscow has so far been minimal.

‘Goldilocks zones’ are a matter of time as well as space

After trailing Boeing in sales of new all-electric spacecraft, Airbus has been quick to catch up

AW&ST: What technical milestones are coming up at Orbital Sciences Corp. and Thales Alenia Space between now and the June 2015 launch of the first Iridium NEXT satellites?

Scientists and spacecraft operators are set for a unique comet flyby