Aviation Week & Space Technology

Northrop designed the Vanguard architecture to support a shift to a modular approach that reuses the same software and hardware on a range of products spanning airborne, ground and surface platforms.

Fit checks for first electric motor conducted on X-57 Maxwell as composite cruise optimized wing comes stogether for follow-on test phase.

In a bid to improve visitor experience, France is pushing the use of airport automated passport control gates, despite organizational challenges.

The U.S. Navy has picked a winner for its hotly contested, unmanned, carrier-based aircraft, but will the losers go away quietly?

Aeronautical researcher and engineering test pilot Robert Harper, co-developer of the Cooper-Harper pilot rating scale, died on Aug. 23.

How a Tier 1 provider plans to go from being an old-school manufacturer to a digital powerhouse.

The history of aviation has largely been about improving performance, and a thread running through that narrative has been industry efforts to reduce the cost of its expensive products.

Since the first flight of the fifth-generation stealth fighter, the defense ministry has scaled back plans for its purchase.

Sensor upgrades and propulsion advances set to boost IAI space-based intelligence-gathering.

The efforts of employees since 1958 have helped the FAA deliver the world’s best aviation safety record, the agency says.

While Jet Airways is forced to undertake a cost-cutting program, other Indian carriers also are under increased financial pressure.

Vacuum-chamber test results drive design improvements to NASA Mars Helicopter.

Piecing together the U.S. Air Force’s emerging initiatives to revamp the 1950s-era bomber for long-range strike missions.

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

The $805 million contract is just the start of what might blossom into $7 billion in carrier-based, aerial refueling tanker work.

Nikkiso hints that it wants to step up to the first tier while maintaining its current second-tier business. And it wants to develop more parts.

The U.S. Navy is working on various challenges for the last of the Joint Strike Fighter versions, still hoping to have it ready for battle by early next year.

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

Boeing has finalized a landing gear design for the 737-10 taller than other MAX models, for the same wheel well. How was this innovative design achieved?

Boeing’s finalized landing gear design for the 737-10 is taller than the other MAX models, but which still fits in the same wheel well. See how this innovatively packaged design was achieved.

India plans to buy maritime helicopters; quantifying the space force; aerospace wins AI challenge, and Brazil joins space situational awareness team.

Rearranging existing space often means coming up with better ways to serve both passengers and tenants while accepting constraints of an airport’s footprint.

Readers discuss ramp security at airports, repurposing KC-135s for wildfire-fighting role, and weigh the merits of pilotless cockpits.

NASA aims to leverage commercial satellite technology and industry practices into a power and propulsion module for a lunar-orbiting gateway.