The 2nd annual SpaceNews Awards for Excellence & Innovation honor excellence and innovation among space professionals, companies, programs and organizations during the previous 12 months. We are seeking nominations  for the following awards:

Company of the Year
Government Agency of the Year
Corporate Leader of the Year
Government Leader of the Year
Unsung Hero of the Year
Startup of the Year
Turnaround of the Year
Breakthrough of the Year
Deal of the Year
Submit Your Nominations
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Selection Process
Beginning Sept. 1: Readers submit nominations for nine awards categories.
Mid-September to Mid-October:  SpaceNews’ panel of judges select finalists from community nominations.
Mid-October to early November: Readers vote on finalists via SpaceNews.com.
Mid-November: Winners will be notified.
Early December:  Winners will be announced in the Dec. 2 issue of SpaceNews magazine and honored at a SpaceNews awards luncheon in Washington, D.C.
 Cobham is the anchor sponsor of the 2018 SpaceNews awards

2017 Winners & Finalists

Company of the Year: SpaceX
Runner up: Planet
Finalists: Arianespace; Maxar Technologies; Nanoracks
Corporate Leader of the Year:  Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX
Runner up: Jeffrey Manber, Nanoracks
Finalists: Rick Ambrose, Lockheed Martin; Jason Andrews, Andrews Space; Kirk Pysher, ILS
Government Leader of the Year (Military): Gen. John Hyten
Runner up: Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, 45th Space Wing
Finalists: Robert Cardillo, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; Gordon Roesler and the DARPA Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites team


Government Leader of the Year (Civil): Étienne Schneider
Runner up: George Nield, FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation
Finalists: Jean-Yves Le Gall, CNES; Catherine Mealing-Jones, U.K. Space Agency


Government Agency of the Year: 45th Space Wing
Runner up: Indian Space Research Organisation
Finalists: FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation, NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service


Deal of the Year: Maxar Technologies
Runner up: Planet buys Terra Bella
Finalists: Speedcast buys UtilSat; Teledyne buys e2V; Virgin Group lands $1 billion Saudi investment


Breakthrough of the Year: Planet completes Mission 1
Runner up: SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 booster
Finalists: Spectrolab’s XTJ Prime solar cell; Lockheed Martin’s SPIDER flat optical instrument; Sodern’s Auriga miniaturized star trackers; Space System Loral’s Ultra High Density Satellite


Startup of the Year: Kymeta
Runner up: Sky and Space Global
Finalists: LeoLabs; Made In Space; Rocket Lab


Turnaround of the Year:  International Launch Services
Runner up:  Orbital ATK
Finalists: Alaska Aerospace Corp.; Spacecom; SpaceX


Unsung Hero of the Year: Jason Crusan, NASA
Runner up: Frank “Ceppi” Cepollina, NASA
Finalists: R. Gilbert “Gil” Moore, Utah State University; Tom Mueller, SpaceX; Guy Perez, OHB; Eric Rehder, Boeing Spectrolab



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