SpaceNews

This article is about the publication. For the daily news segment on Canadian television station Space, see Innerspace (TV series).
SpaceNews
TypePublication (news)
Owner(s)Pocket Ventures, LLC.
Editor-in-chiefBrian Berger
Founded1989
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersAlexandria, Virginia
CountryUSA
ISSN1046-6940
Websitespacenews.com

SpaceNews is a print and digital publication that covers business and political news in the space and satellite 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 and space and the satellite communications business.[2]

SpaceNews covers important news in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America from NASA, the European Space Agency, and private spaceflight firms such as Arianespace, International Launch Services, SpaceX and United 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 administrators Richard Truly, Daniel Goldin, Sean O’Keefe, Michael Griffin and Charles Boldin.[3][4]

Founded in 1989, SpaceNews publishes its flagship magazine 12 times per year.[5] Brian Berger, a journalist who joined SpaceNews 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 the Space Symposium,[8] a civil, military and commercial space conference the Space 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's Conference on Small Satellites,[9] held each August on the campus of Utah State University in Logan, Utah.

SpaceNews was originally owned by the Army Times Publishing Company, which was acquired by Gannett in 1997.[10] In 2000, Space.com (later renamed Imaginova) acquired SpaceNews from Gannett.[11] SpaceNews is currently owned by Pocket Ventures, LLC., which acquired the publication from Imaginova in June 2012.[12][13][14]

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  2. ^ "Pocket Ventures acquires Space News". Steelpoint Capital Partners LP. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  3. ^ "Schafer Featured In SpaceNews". Schafer Corp. 2014-06-10. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  4. ^ "Space News: Profile | U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, Member, House Appropriations commerce, justice, science subcommittee". Congressman Adam Schiff. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  5. ^ "About SpaceNews". SpaceNews. Retrieved 13 Oct 2022.
  6. ^ "Brian Berger, Author at SpaceNews.com". SpaceNews.com. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  7. ^ "SpaceNews Newsletters - SpaceNews.com". SpaceNews.com. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  8. ^ "SpaceNews to produce official — and only — Show Dailies for 33rd Space Symposium - SpaceNews.com". SpaceNews.com. 2017-03-14. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  9. ^ Berger, Brian (2018-08-08). "Download all three days of the SpaceNews SmallSat show dailies". SpaceNews. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  10. ^ "Gannett Announces Preliminary Agreement to Acquire Army Times Publishing Co". TEGNA. 13 June 1997. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  11. ^ "GANNETT ACQUIRES EQUITY STAKE IN SPACE.com – Editor & Publisher". Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  12. ^ Mickey, Bill (9 August 2012). "Pocket Ventures Buys Weekly Magazine Space News". Folio. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
  13. ^ Wallace, Alicia (4 July 2012). "Boulder-based Pocket Ventures Acquires Space News". Daily Camera. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  14. ^ Potter, Beth. "Investors pocket space-news publication". Boulder County Business Report. Retrieved 24 June 2014.