Aviation Week & Space Technology

A new government is pivoting its defense priorities and realigning relations with Europe.

The carrier’s latest step forward in its plans for Scandinavian Airlines highlights the strong potential of the country’s aviation market.

Advancing Nastran simulation; reusable spaceplane testing; Russia hybrid-electric; and AI visual awareness.

After months of preparation, Ukraine is about to receive its first batch of F-16s to help it battle Russia.

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

A roundup of upcoming conferences and exhibitions.

As fixed-price deals signed years ago continue to burden balance sheets, Boeing Defense and Space is focusing on smart growth opportunities.

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

Why Dave Calhoun is breaking a long tradition of pre-air-show interviews with Aviation Week.

After the initial funding wave, investors grow leery of unfulfilled promises by startups.

ITA Airways has operated as Italy’s national airline since 2021. Can it succeed as part of a larger group?

Two new spaceports in Scotland are preparing to service rockets heading to LEO and polar orbit, positioning the UK as a new player in the small launch market.

Will engine-makers be enticed to try to meet requirements for the two new notional civil and military aircraft that need an engine that does not yet exist?

While aerospace and defense companies have lately enjoyed an embarrassment of riches in demand, that has exposed severe weaknesses in their ability to execute.

The two-decade experiment known as Spirit AeroSystems is set for a dramatic and rocky close.

Readers write about tidal effects of Jupiter on Europa, who should be Boeing’s next CEO, prospects for decarbonizing aviation and defense sovereignty.

Joby Aviation modifies S4 pre-production prototype into a technology demonstrator for hydrogen-electric propulsion.

A Pentagon review finds an 81% cost increase, although officials determine the program must continue after being restructured.

Mounting losses have prompted greater caution among some defense companies as Pentagon officials stand by fixed-price acquisition strategies.

Guillaume Faury is looking to bring more work in-house in order to deal with supplier issues.

Matching NASA’s needs with the ideal contracting mechanism is a challenge.

Do Airbus and Boeing’s aerostructures reintegrations represent a trend, anomalies or both?

Launch service provider Arianespace’s order backlog totals 29 missions, with the next being planned for December.

After electric air taxis, commercial space and artificial intelligence, is quantum computing the next big thing for private equity?

GE Aerospace now boasts a validated propulsion design that will compete for use in a future class of hypersonic missiles and reusable vehicles.