Aviation Week & Space Technology

Like many other developers of small satellites, NovaWurks is waiting for a piggyback launch. But the company benefits from a unique spacecraft design.

Proof-of-concept trials worldwide and technology developments should lead to wide-scale biometric identification verification for simplified travel beyond 2020.

India’s Tejas light fighter is late, does not meet requirements, but it is affordable. Planned upgrades could make it a capable machine—given a few more years.

ATC reform left for later; House bill aims to block sale of Boeing aircraft to Iran; lawmakers ask about sending U.S. satellites to orbit on Indian rockets.

U.S. Air Force investigates UAV crashes; Jordan looking to offload its older F-16 fighters; South Korea, Chile interested in buying missiles through U.S. Foreign Military Sales program.

There are strong reasons to doubt that Iran will ride to the commercial industry’s rescue this year—or anytime soon.

Interview with BAE Systems CEO Ian King: Expansion in Turkey and India are on the target list.

Following a critical design review in June that found several components need additional work, the program is tentatively targeting an April delivery of the ESM to NASA.

The Swedish company is promising an Indian production line, access to advanced radar and technology for India’s Tejas fighter.

Charter flights are one thing, but returning Eastern Air Lines to its former prominence will require scheduled service, and Cuba could be the start.

Eurocontrol’s mobile simulators allow airports to prepare for worst of the real world by practicing in the virtual world.

Narrowbodies will be in the spotlight at this year’s Farnborough Airshow. But strategy, not orders will be at the top of the agenda for airframe manufacturers.

What will be the broader ramifications of Brexit on the aerospace industry, and has the market has appropriately priced this in?

The Hercules birds could be flying through hurricanes or fighting fires one day and dropping paratroopers into battle the next. Aviation Week joins a WC-130J Hurricane Hunter on a mock assignment over the Atlantic Coast.

New check-in system introduced at Tokyo Narita Airport will be rolled out at more Star Alliance major bases.

Space exploration is likely to be lost in the “fear and loathing” that will attend the two U.S. political conventions upcoming this month. That is a shame, because the opportunities—and pitfalls —looming in the spaceflight endeavor this year cry out for a well-reasoned, coherent U.S. policy.

Airbus and its Tier 1 partners, led by GKN Aerospace, have invested heavily to make the U.K. a center for wing design and manufacturer. What will it take to keep that lead?

ESaero uses EC-150 concept for a 150-seat turboelectric airliner to advance its understanding of the integration challenges and ramifications of distributed electric propulsion.

AI wins in air combat; Airvolt puts motors to the test; Missing-link Citation uncovered; PAL-V teases commercial flying car for 2018.

If the U.S. opts to disaggregate its future Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellites, the decision could allow allies to create a unified satcom system by 2025.

Flying display of the 737-8 will start a key marketing phase for the reengined Boeing narrowbody aircraft.

Goldfein also offers to consult A-10 operators | NASA inspector general praises agency for saving money on SpaceX launches.

Boeing’s incorporation of touch screens in the 777X cockpit will mark the first time this technology is used in a commercial transport’s fixed displays.

The first clear picture is beginning to emerge to show where Boeing’s evaluations are going and what kind of family may be developed.

The industry has known it was coming for years, but now it is getting real: the much-described end of the duopoly in the narrowbody segment is near. The most concrete near-term consequence is likely to be another bitter trade dispute over government funding.