Jeff has been involved in aerospace journalism since the mid 1990s. Prior to joining Aviation Week, Jeff served as managing editor of Launchspace magazine and the International Space Industry Report. He has been the editor and chief of Aviation Week's Aerospace Daily & Defense Report since 2007 and has been a regular contributor to Aviation Week magazine. He received his B.A. from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) standards committee has released its first technical standard, which defines the requirements for an automatic "sense-and-avoid" system that would allow UAVs to detect and deconflict with other air traffic.
The Cassini-Huygens probe entered orbit around Saturn June 30 via a maneuver that took the spacecraft through Saturn's rings twice while it gathered the closest measurements ever obtained of the second-largest planet in the solar system.
Popular among writers of science fiction, the concept of a "space elevator" is now coming within practical reach given recent advances in nanotube manufacturing, according to Bradley Edwards, director of research at the Institute for Scientific Research, Inc. (ISR) in Fairmont, W.Va.
