Aviation Week & Space Technology

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

A roundup of upcoming conferences, exhibitions and summits.

Surf Air Mobility to deploy hybrid-electric upgrades across its fleets and market to other operators and manufacturers.

NSF mulls next steps after premier radio telescope collapse.

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Soyuz rockets may again begin launching civilians to the ISS.

Airline issued guidance to pilots emphasizing aircraft configuration awareness.

UAE’s Hope and China’s Tianwen-1 open new chapters in Mars exploration.

SOCOM plans Armed Overwatch buy; GBSD moves past initial review; GE engine to power Italian helo and Denmark bolsters Arctic defenses.

Developed for the fighter community, Leonardo’s BriteCloud expendable decoy may now find a niche in protecting UAS.

The U.S. and Mexico are joined at the hip but remain worlds apart when it comes to aerospace manufacturing attractiveness.

In the post-pandemic era, supply chains will become stronger and probably – but not always – shorter.

Ask The Editors: Regulators working on the 737 MAX were not buoyed by the pandemic, but COVID-19 was not a major factor on downtime.

A segment of a $620 million market for advisory air training could be replaced by UAS.

Electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle developers move closer to certification hurdle

Archer aims for rapid certification and ease of manufacture with eVTOL design that balances performance and complexity.

Slashed engineering spending, market coverage gaps and abandoned product developments are endangering Boeing Commercial Aircraft.

Ask the editors: Aviation Week forecasts that the vast majority of Boeing 767 aircraft in the fleet now will still be operating in 2030.

Africa’s primary hub carrier has decided to continue with the Boeing 737 MAX in spite of the March 2019 crash and subsequent grounding.

Flying on e-fuel; Hydrogen ecosystem for airports; Boom-eating supersonic; Flying supercar; European UAM demos; and Airspeeder’s eVTOL.

Investment deal will give eVTOL startup Archer $1.1 billion to develop its eVTOL air taxi—and 200 orders from United Airlines.

Vympel is funding research into a continuation of a short-range missile project shelved decades ago.

The special episode of the podcast offers the full recording of an interview with Scott Bateman, the executive producer of a new documentary about the U.S. President's long-range transport fleet.

Agency’s focus is primarily on pilot human-factors issues.

Lockheed Martin envisages 2022 debut launch for UK Pathfinder satellite mission, but so does the competition.