NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has ...

The engine did not fire, but this fringe failure hardly diminished the orbit-shifting accomplishment ... satellite laboratory into orbit. Another space vehicle performed equally agilely.

Programs such as IRIS², Europe’s $10 billion-plus multi-orbit broadband initiative, also reflect a shift toward integrating commercial space into defense — a ‘dual-use’ strategy that has ...