The wars of the future might start by accident, such as by a pilot hot-dogging and bumping into another plane, the loss and outrage from the accident escalating into outright battle.
The U.S. Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia—home to 16 separate commands—has been a strategically important outpost, but its lease is due to expire at year-end and some advocate against renewing.
The head of Darpa’s Tactical Technology Office says the world is on the verge of leaps in supersonic travel, vertical takeoff and landing systems, flight proficiency and safety, space launch and awareness of space.
International orders, Congress to aid Boeing’s legacy fighters; U.S. to sell Kiowas to Tunisia; Harris wins electronic warfare contract; and India buys Longbow fire-control radars.
The key to putting humans on Mars, developing supersonic and hypersonic commercial transports and introducing space tourism? Produce smarter humans. Learn how.
While the U.S. is pushing for low Earth orbit commercialization as an impetus for deep-space exploration, others see a lunar polar base as a better bet.
The private sector could move quickly to help governments manage space surveillance and advise companies and spaceports on operating responsibly in orbit.
Future space exploration will raise issues that we can only begin to consider today. Are the societal benefits derived from human exploration, expansion of knowledge and scientific progress worth the risk to human life of what amounts to a one-way trip to Mars?
Richard Branson has been a pioneer on many fronts, but he is especially intense when it comes to space exploration and the promise it holds for a better Earth.
Chief technology officers from Airbus, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon discuss what lies ahead for the industry from multirobotic additive manufacturing, behavioral analytics and distributed propulsion to widespread commercial supersonic flight and fusion power.
Just as the horse and buggy as a mode of travel now seems quaint to us, it can be assumed that our progeny will one day regard today’s modes of transportation as antiquated.
NASA’s proposed Prandtl-D3 instrumented aerodynamic testbed is attempting to prove the viability of a potentially paradigm-shifting low-drag aerodynamic configuration.
As part of our 100 years of Aviation Week celebration, we asked former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin what he would say to our next president about advancing U.S. science and technology in the next 100 years.
As part of Aviation Week & Space Technology's special centennial issue, we asked Scaled Composites founder Burt Rutan to share his thoughts on the next 100 years of aerospace, and the ingredients required for technological breakthroughs.
New technique for producing printed circuit boards may help overcome the physical limitations that conventional manufacturing is running into as more components are crammed onto a small space.
