The drive to develop Japan’s first commercial aircraft since 1974 hits another stumbling block as flight tests are halted and production is shut down. Aviation Week editors discuss whether the regional jet program will survive—and whether its troubles will benefit Embraer.

Expectations for a March 2021 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are fading, agency officials told a June 10 virtual meeting of the National Academies of Sciences’ Space Studies Board (SSB).

United Airlines has become the first major U.S. carrier to require all passengers to complete a health self-assessment at check-in, offering a further glimpse of how post-COVID-19 air travel may look.

Wisk, the urban air mobility joint venture between Kitty Hawk and Boeing, has resumed flight testing of its Cora all-electric autonomous air taxi in the U.S. and New Zealand.

Emirates Airline carried out a second round of layoffs on June 9 to reduce its costs during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Much of the technology needed to make airports safe environments in the post-COVID-19 era already exists; the challenge will be to introduce it in weeks or months, rather than the more normal timespan of years, SITA VP for airline and airport, Sébastien Fabre said June 10.

Much of the technology needed to make airports safe environments in the post-COVID-19 era already exists—the challenge will be to introduce it in…

Ask the Editors: The supersonic renaissance slowed before the pandemic, but new aircraft should come to market after aviation recovers.