Aviation Week & Space Technology

A new financing round brings strategic investors, including Airbus and Microsoft, on board a startup that wants to enable safe and efficient large-scale operations for small UAS in low-altitude airspace.

Colorado will spend $6 million for a remote system it hopes will bring affordable control tower services at a handful of key mountain airports.

Corporate aircraft operators clamor to join Aviation Safety Action Program of Air Charter Safety Foundation ASAP.

Study shows dramatic rise in U.S. weapons exports, MBDA seeks new markets for Sea Venom missile, Russia and India agree to more cooperation on T-50 fighter.

Developers in India have designed the IMRH to outperform the Mi-17 on a little less weight, partly by using an airframe made mainly of carbon-fiber composite.

The change in administration means change in the spaceflight community. There will be risks.

For the first time since last summer, SpaceX successfully got cargo to the International Space Station, including many new research projects.

Limitations on the F-35’s strike capability may prompt fresh thinking in the military about how it uses and upgrades existing aircraft.

New air traffic navigation equipment and procedures that could help handle more traffic are getting a tryout at Charles de Gaulle Airport.

A majority of the spacecraft, 88, are cubesats bolstering San Francisco-based Planet’s growing Earth-observation constellation.

Increasing from three to four the number of astronauts assigned to the station's U.S. segment could double research activities, NASA believes.

Eirik Lie sat down with Aviation Week to discuss the F-35, JSM, Nasams and building Norway's Kongsberg into an international brand.

The close-air-support jet of the future, the F-35, will not be capable of hitting moving targets in Block 3F without new bombs.

Practically everyone involved thinks air traffic issues will dominate FAA reauthorization, but few can say what will happen.

Airbus helps yacht race; flying cars on sale; Dubai plans air taxis; Singapore counters drones; Insitu flies Redkite WAMI.

In a giant game of aviation chess, the pieces that will determine the battle for the middle-of-the-market sector next decade are already in play.

The Air Force requires the fighters to hit the tanker every 30-40 min. during an ocean crossing.

In 1917 Aviation Week’s founding editors issued an urgent warning about the lack of preparedness of the U.S. to fight an air war. Such concerns prompted President Woodrow to take action, resulting in the establishment of NASA Langley.

After almost seven decades of development and testing in high-speed flight, the U.S. finally looked set to become the undisputed leader in hypersonics. What changed? Listen in as our editors discuss.

The proliferation of types and versions means the Chinese air force and navy remain quite dissatisfied with the modernity of their fighters, even as successive models are increasingly competitive against the combat aircraft of rival countries.

NASA, Boeing, United, Honeywell live-test new algorithms that optimize spacing between aircraft, boosting capacity at airports.

Saab alone has hopes of snagging fighter contracts of both the Indian navy and air force. Its JAS 39E/F Gripen meets the air force demand for just one engine, and a carrier-based version is in the works.

Aviation Week, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and universities recognize these 20 accomplished students in aerospace fields.

Northrop Grumman Corp. promoted Stan Crow to chief executive for Japan. Robert J. LaBelle has been hired as CEO of XTI Aircraft Co.

Readers discuss the last few Person of the Year choices; query man's inherent goodness; question boundary layer ingestion benefit; applaud converting blueprints to digital mockups.