Aviation Week & Space Technology

Developers are proposing novel satellite concepts to handle launch, power and thermal radiation challenges.

What activity has the commercial fleet recorded since Farnborough 2024? Get the picture, with data from Aviation Week’s Fleet Discovery

A roundup of upcoming conferences and exhibitions.

With funding as well as demonstrators taking shape and new partners waiting in the wings, GCAP is moving from ambition to reality.

NASA is gambling that a $30 million demonstration mission can capture and reboost the Swift gamma-ray telescope.

NASA will provide the instruments, but they will be owned by Relativity, as will the data they collect, which the company plans to share with the science community.

As industry struggles to chip away at backlogs and speed up weaponry production, aerospace and defense manufacturers are embracing automation like never before.

Commercial aviation faces an innovation gulf. Its customers do not seem to care.

As a first generation of hypersonic weapons in the U.S. nears fielding, the Pentagon has adopted a different set of goals than range and speed for the next.

Expansion of wireless services in the upper C-band spectrum will require more resilient radio altimeters.

Industry, academia and government are combining to rebuild the UK’s long-dormant hypersonics capability for the next generation of deep-strike weapons.

UAE plans to certify cargo eVTOL; India’s electric aircraft push; Radia’s outsize WindRunner progress; and boost for drag-reducing riblets.

The next generation of RAF combat power will depend as much on autonomous systems and industrial resilience as on a new fighter aircraft.

The two airlines are working on the massive task of combining their safety systems in advance of the Dec. 17 merger date.

Editors dig into the UK’s Defense Investment Plan, discussing how billions in new spending could reshape GCAP and airpower, electronic warfare and NATO strategy.

The U.S. Defense Department is attempting to create an industry from next to nothing in 24 months.

The carrier and the finlet developer collected more than 2,000 hr. of cruise data to confirm 1.2% fuel saving.

The long-delayed UK Defense Investment Plan resolves uncertainty over some but not all weapons programs.

Rocket Lab is placing an $8 billion bet to take on SpaceX in another market.

When the next-gen narrowbody programs launch is largely out of the hands of Airbus and Boeing.

Ten years after the C Series entered service, editors are joined by Richard Aboulafia to assess the success of what is now the A220 and explain why a decision to stretch it or not is such a conundrum for Airbus.

Thousands of drones and increased aircraft range are changing the airborne division’s tactics.

Airbus is promoting the idea of minimum investment and minimum change if it launches a larger A220, but the timing remains unclear.

As Airbus and Boeing develop A320neo and 737 MAX successors, opportunities will open for suppliers to deploy long-developed products.

America’s fixed-base operator industry, totaling some 3,500 facilities, is experiencing a wave of buying, building and upgrading