Editor-in-Chief
Brian Berger is SpaceNews editor-in-chief, responsible for all SpaceNews editorial products, including SpaceNews.com and the biweekly magazine.
He joined SpaceNews in 1998, spending his first decade with the publication covering NASA. His reporting on the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia accident was recognized with an Online News Association award for breaking news.
He was named senior staff writer in 2004, a position he held until becoming SpaceNews deputy editor in 2008.
Brian earned a bachelor's degree in magazine production and editing from Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism.
In a departure from Chile’s previous plan to order an upgraded replacement for its sole reconnaissance satellite, the air force is now looking at whether it can acquire partial control of a more advanced satellite of the caliber Maxar’s DigitalGlobe division operates.
One of the two commercial GEO satellite contracts Space Systems Loral announced this year now appears in doubt following Israel's announcement that Amos-8 will be built domestically.
