Aviation Week & Space Technology

Traditional safety hurdles slow aviation’s response to GPS jamming and spoofing.

Readers write about Telstar 1, space-based missile defense, JetZero’s Z4, Iridium (element and satellites) and China’s lead in hypersonics.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

New factories mean nothing without workers, and industry is finally stepping up to fill the floor space.

Early results from the NTSB’s investigation suggest the Boeing 767’s pilots attempted to go around before running off the runway in Miami.

Collaborative combat aircraft are set to become major military aircraft production items.

A roundup of upcoming conferences and exhibitions.

It is not only disruption in war zones that is threatening aviation’s reliance on GPS.

DSNA implemented a new procedure at Paris Orly Airport in 2025 to promote continuous descent operations in relatively dense traffic.

“The investment castings market,” analysts say, “is in War Games mode.”

Isar Aerospace kicked off a busy week in Europe, which is showing it is looking to reclaim a leadership position in space launch.

GPS’s lack of resilience poses a growing threat to aviation safety.

Recent appointments, promotions and honors in the aviation and aerospace industry.

The company’s point-to-point delivery vehicle hits a key milestone.

GE’s $12 billion acquisition of CPP has huge implications for the castings and aircraft engine sectors—Aerodynamic Advisory’s Kevin Michaels joins Aviation Week editors to explain why.

AI-enabled systems routinely fly mock dogfights between fighters within visual range of each other. The next step is to unlock air combat beyond visual range.

The drone bomb incident at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany must trigger much broader security measures.

GE Aerospace is overcoming supply chain bottlenecks and introducing wholesale production system improvements to accelerate fighter, trainer and helicopter engine assembly.

India’s regional market is a large opportunity for aircraft manufacturers, and ATR has reason to believe the opportunity can turn into reality.

DLR low-altitude tests; Dronamics uncrewed cargo trials; DARPA’s first Lift Challenge; Tekever VTOL uses hydraulic propulsion; and Sceye lighter-than-air HAPS.

After losing dozens of Reapers in Iran, the Air Force aims for its next medium-altitude surveillance aircraft to be simpler and cheaper.

Since landing on Mars in February 2021, the rover has put more than 28 mi. on its odometer.

Listen in as editors discuss Saab’s collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) concept, Europe’s evolving uncrewed combat aircraft strategy and the U.S. Navy’s ambitious carrier-based CCA plans.

Regent’s Viceroy takes flight as the company shifts from testing toward production and expands its defense ambitions.

Aviation Week's Graham Warwick offers a scathing assessment of U.S. regulators as a King Air crash earlier this year underscores concerns about GPS.