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| Type | Publication (news) |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Pocket Ventures, LLC. |
| Editor-in-chief | Brian Berger |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Alexandria, Virginia |
| Country | USA |
| ISSN | 1046-6940 |
| Website | spacenews |
SpaceNews is a print and digital publication that covers business and political news in thespace andsatellite industry.SpaceNews provides news, commentary and analysis to an audience of government officials, politicians and executives within the space industry.[1]SpaceNews details topics in civil, military andspace and the satellite communications business.[2]
SpaceNews covers important news in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America fromNASA, theEuropean Space Agency, andprivate spaceflight firms such asArianespace,International Launch Services,SpaceX andUnited Launch Alliance. The magazine regularly features profiles on relevant and important figures within the space industry. These profiles have featured numerous government leaders, corporate executives and other knowledgeable space experts, including NASA administratorsRichard Truly,Daniel Goldin,Sean O’Keefe,Michael Griffin andCharles Boldin.[3][4]
Founded in 1989,SpaceNews publishes its flagship magazine 12 times per year.[5] Brian Berger, a journalist who joinedSpaceNews in 1998 to cover NASA and reusable launch vehicles, was named editor-in-chief in January 2016.[6]
SpaceNews produces and publishes several electronic newsletters, including First Up, First Up Satcom, SN Military.Space and SpaceNews This Week.[7]
SpaceNews produces the official show daily of theSpace Symposium,[8] a civil, military and commercial space conference theSpace Foundation holds annually in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The show daily is a tabloid-size print publication distributed to attendees during the conference. In 2018,SpaceNews began producing a print show daily for AIAA and Utah State University'sConference on Small Satellites,[9] held each August on the campus ofUtah State University in Logan, Utah.
SpaceNews was originally owned by theArmy Times Publishing Company, which was acquired byGannett in 1997.[10] In 2000,Space.com (later renamed Imaginova) acquiredSpaceNews from Gannett.[11]SpaceNews is currently owned by Pocket Ventures, LLC., which acquired the publication fromImaginova in June 2012.[12][13][14]
