Here are the winners of the 2018 SpaceNews Awards for Excellence & Innovation

SpaceNews established these awards to honor the well-known champions and the unsung heroes shaping the global space industry. We endeavored to celebrate headline-grabbing breakthroughs as well as outside-the-limelight innovations. The winners recognized in the pages ahead were chosen by the SpaceNews editorial team after an open nomination process that concluded with a reader poll. This year, we are also identifying the Readers' Choice for each award to recognize the top vote getters in each cat...