Aviation Week & Space Technology

Objectives include surveying the topography and geology of Mars, its physical fields, atmosphere, ionosphere and climate.

Readers write about air-to-air missiles, clear language, aircraft recycling, troop transport and robots on Mars.

Airbus Defense & Space CEO Dirk Hoke talks with Aviation Week about COVID impact, Europe’s big defense initiatives and other challenges.

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

A country-by-country look at who will benefit from the alphabet soup of European defense and aerospace programs in progress to bolster industry.

A roundup of upcoming conferences, exhibitions and summits.

Committee backs increased F-35 buy; fixing drag on F-18 readiness; Austria to retire trainers; and Brazilian Gripen production starts.

Italian and Swedish industry will begin joining discussions on Tempest later this year.

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

Pilots who have seen proposed material say it marks major philosophical shift.

Since June, airlines have started to reinstate substantial capacity, and now must hope demand will return as expected.

A recent IATA survey has shown that passenger concerns are flying are still paramount. Aviation Week editors Sean Broderick, Bill Carey, Ben Goldstein and Jens Flottau discuss what airlines and airports can realistically do to protect passengers from being infected with COVID-19 and what the role of governments should be.

Ask the Editors: OEMs have shifted away from the underlying architectures of automobiles. Is a similar sea change in aviation due?

U.S. Military bureaucracy has neglected serious risks to the system and its users for decades.

UK government sees OneWeb acquisition as a steppingstone to sovereign global navigation system.

It is time for the military to relinquish control of commercial positioning, navigation and timing assets.

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is looking at suborbital flights.

Here is a look at missions that have landed and attempted to land on Mars, as well as upcoming projects by the U.S., China and Europe.

UAE and China are looking for Mars debuts, joining eight spacecraft currently operating at the Red Planet.

Near-term acquisition programs are hardly altered. Most proposals will go ahead late in the 2020s or in the 2030s.

Propulsion testbed prepared for flight in UK as work begins on first application.

Part-cruise missile and part-unmanned aircraft system, Skyborg is set to redefine air combat operations.

Most airlines in the region want to defer deliveries due this year, and early widebody retirements are also planned.

Ask the Editors: The French government and France’s Big Four aerospace manufacturers partner up to infuse ailing suppliers with capital.

After missions to assess Mars’ suitability for life, a new rover will hunt for microfossils and cache them for return to Earth.