Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Irene Klotz, Vivienne Machi
After a seven-month hiatus, SpaceX has unveiled the next-generation Starship.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Helen Massy-Beresford, Lori Ranson, Christine Boynton, Adrian Schofield
Carriers are weighing up the long-term industry impact as well as short-term operational challenges.
Airlines & Lessors

Aviation Week Staff
Readers write about the FAMM program, 20 Twenties, our Bill Franke interview, Virgin’s spaceplane and inflight connectivity. Plus, behind the scenes with Michael O. Lavitt.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Steve Trimble
Teaser: A USAF official argues that China has learned the wrong lessons from U.S. successes and failures in applying stealth technology over the last three decades.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
The cloud-based software is intended to allow space tech developers to test interoperability before flight.
Commercial Space

Aviation Week Staff
Five years after delivery of the final Bombardier CRJ, the in-service fleet has remained remarkably steady.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
As German civil aerospace copes with multiple overlapping crises, preparations for the next-generation narrowbody aircraft are accelerating.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Brian Everstine
The command weighs upgrade options for the new MV-75 tiltrotor while modifying its existing special ops helicopter fleet.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
Artificial intelligence’s trillion-dollar question: When the bubble bursts, what lasting value will remain?
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Structural reorganization and Lean processes are making headway in GE Aerospace’s push to increase production capacity and tackle durability improvements.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall, Tony Osborne
The German market is an early proving ground for companies vying to equip European air forces with collaborative combat aircraft to augment crewed fighters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Adrian Schofield
Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia and Batik Air look to heighten connectivity at the Kuala Lumpur hub.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
Electric seaplane family plan; battery team for hybrid regional; U.S. quantum computing boost; and folding-wing eVTOL UAS.
Emerging Technologies

By Robert Wall
For Russia and Ukraine, the battle of electronic warfare tools versus drones is a seemingly neverending cycle of evolution.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By P. Barry Butler
Millennial engineers are engaged in NASA’s Artemis missions, and the program is likely to inspire future generations of scientists, engineers and explorers.
Space Exploration

By Jens Flottau
Aviation has always been a political industry, and it has only gotten worse. For IATA, it makes choosing its next director general even more of a balancing act.
Airlines & Lessors

By Robert Wall, Tony Osborne
From the cancellation of RIAT to Turkey's newly announced ICBM, editors navigate the evolving European defense scene.
Check 6

By Thierry Dubois
Airspeed, the relative speed of the aircraft to the air, is vital information to maintain sufficient stall margin.
Emerging Technologies

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
Aftermarket providers are making acquisitions, investing in new equipment and facilities and adding services to boost their landing gear portfolios.
Marketplace

By Sean Broderick
Boeing did not recognize the significance of an MD-11 problem that led to November’s fatal accident.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Joe Anselmo, Jens Flottau, Guy Norris, Scott Mikus
Editors are joined by analyst Scott Mikus joins to discuss Boeing's strategic position in China following a 200-aircraft order from Beijing that disappointed Wall Street.
Check 6

By Vivienne Machi
Space Force leaders say space control, launch capacity and orbital warfare training top the service’s fiscal 2027 investment priorities.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
One designer’s thoughts on NASA Aeronautics’ next step.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
Deutsche Aircraft wants to reenter the regional market with its D328eco, seeing broad potential, but building the aircraft after a 20-year hiatus is complex.
Aircraft & Propulsion