Aviation Week & Space Technology

Awards tallying nearly $2.3 billion go to ULA, Northrop Grumman and Blue Origin.

Release of the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft solicitation puts the U.S. Army’s requirement for an armed scout at the front of its rotary-wing needs.

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Boeing fears that a major CH-47 upgrade could be delayed as the U.S. Army looks for budget savings.

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

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

Faury has been a driver of that approach. But whether that low-risk, low-investment answer will be enough in the long term is already in doubt.

Two LE-9 expander bleed engines have run, one for 1,000 sec. The H3 launcher project is on schedule.

Hayabusa2 is to depart Ryugu in late 2019 and parachute samples from the asteroid down to Earth in December 2020.

Thanks to Hexcel opening a new factory in France, European industry gains complete autonomy in carbon-fiber supply.

In hypersonics, it is hard to know which is going faster, the hype or the reality. But increasingly, investors could be betting on the latter.

Pieces of the complex U.S. hypersonic development jigsaw are coming together as the Pentagon places reliance on heritage design for common-boost glide concept.

As Primera Air learned the hard way, in an era of high jet fuel prices unless they have new and efficient fleets, long-haul budget airlines are doomed.

NASA chief Jim Bridenstine aims to bridge partisan divide with political know-how.

GE’s oldest widebody engine family enjoys a comeback amid buoyant cargo market and reengining study.

Five rules for portfolio-shaping.

GE hits halfway mark in engine certification program as delivery of first production-compliant GE9X to Boeing nears for 777-9.

Japan’s solid-propellant rocket is moving quickly from one version to the next. A new first stage will be the solid-propellant booster from H3.

Flight-testing the world’s largest engine requires precise control and a thorough buildup approach, says GE Flight Test Operations chief test pilot Jon Ohman.

From communities isolated by poor roads to heart-attack victims and affluent golfers, pilot projects are exploring the value of drone delivery.

Visiting near-Earth objects with multiple smallsats is to serve as a pilot run for a shared mission.

Hypersonic X-plane; NASA testbed crash; Raider hits 200 kt., drone strikes wing; smart material for turbine; waste-gas biofuel; Garmin joins Bell’s eVTOL; advancing lightweight structures, and TsAGI reshapes Tadpole.

British defense officials contend that the Boeing 737-based E-7 is the “best value for money option.”

These victories, while impressive, have led to questions on pricing and whether the company is effectively buying the market by offering the lowest prices around.

In its first version, Landspace’s main launcher will hurl 4 metric tons to LEO and fly in 2020. The maximum version will have a 32-metric-ton payload.