Aviation Week & Space Technology

Despite SpaceX and Blue Origin’s advances on reusable engines, the 16 old space shuttle engines are the only way right now to power flight crews into space.

An innovative state bureaucracy? South Carolina’s got one—and it has won two key awards, too.

Still to be revealed are the payload masses for Blue Origin’s two New Glenn variants. Both versions of the new launcher will have a 23-ft. diameter. The two-stage version will stand 270 ft. tall, while the three-stage vehicle will be 313 ft.

Video footage from the HUD of a U.S. Air Force F-16 records the dramatic moment when its unconscious pilot is saved from certain death by the aircraft’s Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System.

The unveiling ends months of speculation about Boeing and partner Saab’s mysterious clean-sheet design for the T-X, which seeks to replace the T-38.

Double-bubble, blended wing-body, truss-braced wing, hybrid wing-body—they all sound tempting, but which will NASA pick for its next X-plane and what can it afford?

ISRO’s satellite center will help train companies to assemble and test spacecraft.

SkyTeam Alliance members Korean Air and Delta Air Lines agree to expand their limited codeshare connections to many more international and U.S. domestic routes beginning in the fourth quarter.

More and more European low-cost carriers are looking into long-haul flying, following the path of Norwegian, Jetstar and Air Asia X.

Whatever the outcome of the protracted process to expand EASA’s oversight, it is a given that the safety agency will wield more power in the future.

UAS in the news: Mercedes and Matternet team on drone logistics; Google’s Project Wing delivers burritos; Mitre names counter-UAS winners; Vayu flies medical samples in Madagascar; DJI tests show value of drones for search and rescue.

In 2009, aviation committed to achieve carbon-neutral growth from 2020. Now caps will not go into effect before 2021 and will be voluntary at first. For international aviation it is hard-won progress toward preventing CO2 emissions and climate change limiting future growth.

There are key differences between the defense spending cycle that consensus believes will unfold in 2016-20 and prior cycles.

With its first regulation allowing routine use of unmanned aircraft systems in national airspace in place, the FAA moves to next UAS rulemaking actions.

What you need to know going into the Air Force Association’s annual air and space symposium.

This week’s Washington Outlook sizes up the impact of the Pentagon’s strategy to threaten a defense budget bill veto, ways around regulations slowing remote-sensing industry sales and a big deal for counter-drug mission aircraft.

Expect the trade deal to loom large after the election as the A&D industry is offers full support, despite opposition from both U.S. presidential candidates.

Announcement of the new bomber development is a further sign that China is seeking to project force beyond ranges necessary for immediate national defense.

Boeing’s Sutter, who died last month at 95, had a huge influence on what may be the two most important commercial aircraft of the late 20th century.

Scott Kirby’s appointment at United Airlines also sheds light on difficulties CEO Oscar Munoz has faced finding acceptance among shareholders.

Upcoming aviation and aerospace industry events in September and October, and Aviation Week Network events

Parker Aerospace has promoted Steve Pitts to vice president/general manager-control systems and James Stephens to general manager-aircraft wheel and brakes.

The United Arab Emirates civil aviation authority report on Emirates 521 raises questions about the risks of automation behaving differently in certain modes.

Turkish government changes recruitment laws to let the air force to solve pilot crisis and recruit officers before they graduate from college.

The focus of the investigation is on specific failures, faults and combination of events that might have led to the destruction of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and its payload on the launch pad during preparations for a routine static-fire test of rocket’s first-stage Merlin engines.