Joe Anselmo

Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network

Washington, DC

Summary

Joe Anselmo has been Editorial Director of the Aviation Week Network and Editor-in-Chief of Aviation Week & Space Technology since 2013. Based in Washington, D.C., he directs a team of more than two dozen aerospace journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Under his leadership, Aviation Week has won numerous accolades for its in-depth reporting and deep dives into aerospace technology, including the 2017 Grand Neal award for “Top Brand/Overall Editorial Excellence,” business-to-business journalism’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. Writers from the Aviation Week Network also took home six honors at the 2018 Aerospace Media Awards in London.

In 2015, Anselmo and his team spearheaded a digital initiative that provides subscribers with fresh content every day via mobile phones, tablets, or desktop computers. To mark Aviation Week’s 100th anniversary in 2016, the publication’s entire archive – more than 440,000 pages of articles, images, covers and advertisements – was digitized into a searchable online archive. Aviation Week also has accelerated its push into digital media with regular podcasts, videos, data features, infographics and eBooks.

Anselmo has more than 25 years of experience as an editor and reporter with Aviation Week, Congressional Quarterly and the Washington Post Company. He has won three Aerospace Journalist of the Year awards. A graduate of Ohio University, he was elected three times to the National Press Club’s Board of Governors, including one term as board chairman.

 

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JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
ICO Global Communications could face an even tougher climb than Iridium does to emerge from bankruptcy, because the company still needs another $1.7 billion just to get its medium-Earth-orbit constellation up and running, financial analysts say. The $4.7-billion satellite telephone venture, a commercial spinoff of the London-based Inmarsat consortium, filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on Aug. 27, exactly two weeks after competitor Iridium filed for protection in the same court.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
NASA has decided to overhaul its X-34 reusable launch vehicle program, adding a third flight vehicle in an effort to recover months of schedule lost when the U.S. Air Force threw the agency's test plans into disarray.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
A 124 X 12-mi. strip of rolling plains has been chosen as the touchdown site for NASA's Mars Polar Lander, which is due to arrive on Dec. 3 for a three-month study of the unique region around the planet's barren southern pole. NASA officials selected the landing site from an area the size of California after studying imagery and 3D topographic measurements gathered since June by the orbiting Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The location contains some surface features but no slopes steeper than 10 deg.