Aviation Week & Space Technology

Fifty years after Apollo, NASA is preparing for a permanent presence around the Moon.

As airlines ramp up, maintenance providers are keeping pace—for now.

Collins’ reconnaissance pod takes flight; UH-60V poised for production; UK P-8’s first SAR mission; and U.S. Army to expand counter-UAS.

Mid-decade still looks feasible for the commercial launch of eVTOL air taxi services.

Aviation employment is down nearly 50% since 2020, but manufacturing output is higher.

Russia’s war against Ukraine has made the CR929 program more difficult to manage, with Western sanctions causing more delays.

It is the only reliable avenue to decarbonize aviation without disrupting the air connectivity that drives the global economy.

The last person to walk on the Moon reflects on the geopolitical importance of a new era of human spaceflight.

NASA plans to use 10 small satellites to study the Sun, Moon and deep space.

The Artemis I flight test of NASA’s superheavy-lift rocket and Orion capsule sets the stage for crewed missions.

Boom is close to unveiling its propulsion provider, as American Airlines Overture order boosts the supersonic airliner’s backlog.

You can imagine the frustration of Airbus’ engineers. Just hours before the company’s Zephyr high-altitude pseudo-satellite looked set to break a 60-year-old flight-duration record, the solar-powered uncrewed aircraft system was lost.

The special air warfare branch is reorganizing fleets and missions for a new era of competition among great powers.

Textron’s tiltrotor Nexus; Eviation Alice taxi tests; eBeaver flight milestone; Regent’s blown wing; and Automating eVTOL design.

The Army’s rotorcraft will need additional range to remain relevant in a conflict with China.

Service says its programs are the only current advanced fighter engine competition, but the future of the program is in doubt.

The Defense Department wants to host Space Experiment Review Board payloads on off-the-shelf smallsats.

Lockheed Martin will deliver the first Dark Eagle missiles with live warheads even as engineers continue to finalize the design.

The UK Royal Navy wants UAS to take on many of the surface and subsurface surveillance duties currently performed by manned helicopters.

Space Force takes over Army satcom; Osprey crash blamed on pilot error; Philippines eyes Chinook; and MH-139 to begin military testing.

Nearly two decades after the Concorde was retired, is the rival of supersonic air travel for real?

Signing of the Inflation Reduction Act by President Biden introduces key mechanisms to improve the sustainability of aviation.

Hydrogen for GA; TriFan reverts to turbines; Fan-in-wing eVTOL; UAM Challenge line-up

As operational difficulties gradually ease, the rise in fuel prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the top issue for LCCs.

Pentagaon needs to leverage commercial innovation and speed adoption of new technologies.