“How do we use aerial mobility in the future on Mars, to help not just robotic exploration, but to help human exploration?”
Ellen Stofan
Smithsonian
More Space Content From Aviation Week & Space Technology
Mar 20, 2015
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr., a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, presented Aviation Week’s Tomorrow’s Leaders Award to students of four U.S. military services academies who have demonstrated overall excellence as well as a keen interest in pursuing various careers in aerospace.
Mar 20, 2015
Snowstorm shuts down Washington but fails to halt Aviation Week’s 58th annual Laureate awards ceremony, which salutes aerospace sector’s high achievers.
Mar 20, 2015
The European Space Agency was awarded Aviation Week’s 2015 Space Laureate for getting up close and personal with a comet—landing a robotic space probe on its surface and gleaning a wealth of information.
Mar 20, 2015
David W. Thompson and a pair of classmates from Harvard Business School launched Orbital Sciences Corp. in 1982 to, as they put it, ‘bring the benefits of space down to Earth.’ The company, with Thompson still at the helm, continues to innovate and expand its vision.
Mar 20, 2015
Seeing a potentially major new market, rocket and spacecraft builders are positioning themselves to appeal to designers of small satellite constellations.
Mar 19, 2015
"What's especially surprising about the aurora we saw is how deep in the atmosphere it occurs," said Arnaud Stiepen, a University of Colorado researcher.
Mar 19, 2015
Inmarsat and Honeywell have successfully tested over-the-air performance for Honeywell's JetWave MCS 8200 onboard aircraft hardware on Inmarsat's Global Xpress (GX) satellite network on 4 March 2015. This successful test signifies that the next generation of truly global high-speed in-flight connectivity for passengers, airlines and operators is becoming a reality.
Mar 18, 2015
Budget realities and better software may be thawing the U.S. government’s resistance to “non-traditional” space sensors to augment the high-priced systems it has developed and fielded over the years.