The new space plan provides 1.4 trillion rubles ($20.5 billion) through 2025—but largely guts earlier proposals to send humans to the Moon in the next decade and leaves in doubt timing of a joint mission to Mars with the European Space Agency.
Airlines have attempted ultra-long-haul flying in the past, but more capable aircraft coupled with a reduction in fuel prices make this go-round seem more achievable.
Would Lockheed’s C-130J equipped with retracting floats provide the U.S. military with an amphibian answer to China’s Avic TA600 long-range flying boat?
Production technology has advanced over the 15 years the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been in development. Now those advances are helping reduce the fighter’s cost.
The mental health of pilots and the privacy of their records and consultations with doctors is back in the news following the report by French air safety investigators on the crash of a Germanwings A320 in the Alps last year. Jim Asker, Jens Flottau and John Croft discuss the issues and what might be done to prevent such tragedies.
At Aviation Week’s 59th annual Laureate Awards in Washington, editors saluted two dozen finalists and then announced a winner in each of six categories: commercial aviation, defense, space, innovation, technology and business aviation.
During John Crichton’s tenure as CEO of Nav Canada, it pioneered the use of ADS-B and made significant improvements in the transatlantic corridors it manages—the busiest oceanic airspace in the world.
U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory/Lockheed Martin team was named Aviation Week’s 2016 Defense Laureate winners for its work on an integrated collision avoidance system (ICAS) designed to automatically maneuver U.S. combat aircraft away from an imminent collision with the ground or other aircraft.
For delivering on a 15-year promise to complete the initial reconnaissance of the known Solar System, the 2016 Space Laureate goes to the scientists and engineers who created and flew the New Horizons probe to Pluto, and beyond.
For their vision in the acquisition and transformation of Textron Aviation, Textron Inc. Chairman and CEO Scott Donnelly and Textron Aviation President and CEO Scott Ernest were selected as the Aviation Week 2016 Business Aviation Laureates.
Despite uncertain funding, Aurora Flight Sciences’ Orion unmanned aircraft project has achieved considerable technological success, and for that it is awarded Aviation Week’s 2016 Innovation Laureate.
The aerospace arm of Canada’s National Research Council creates a unique facility for controlled research into passenger comfort and cabin-crew performance in flight.
JPL head Charles Elachi was awarded an Aviation Week Lifetime Achievement Laureate for “a lifetime dedicated to gaining a better understanding of the Solar System.
