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.

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

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

China set for in-flight abort test of Mengzhou crew spacecraft China appears set for an in-flight abort test of its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

After losing about 20% of its civil servant workforce in the past year, NASA’s administrator says the agency plans to bring more expertise in-house.

Over the moon and under the radar ...