Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Jen DiMascio
A wayward weather satellite | U.S. Navy adds to SM-6 contract | UAE buys Piaggio’s HammerHead UAV | Boeing, Paramount add teeth to Ahrlac aircraft
Defense

By Michael Bruno
The GaN upgrade represents one of the most significant improvements to one of Raytheon’s most important franchises in years.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
When it comes to pursuing a new middle-of-the-market aircraft, the biggest questions for now are why, not how.
Air Transport

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. Air Force offers public bomber details in drips and drabs; this time: the suppliers.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Whatever contributing factors account for the exact rise in spending, the major reorganization announced at the end of December and partly explained in January and February is supposed to further boost the capacity of China’s military.
Defense

Finding evidence of extraterrestrial life could be the bonus of NASA’s robotic mission to Europa to map the Jovian moon’s icy surface and might engender more government support.
Space

The ViviSat Satellite-servicing concept is getting a boost from the Orbital ATK merger, with added technology allowing a jump to an earlier launch.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Exploring the challenges of deep-space journeys on humans will be a cornerstone for future space endeavors.
Space

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos prepares to manufacture what might wean the U.S. off of Russian RD-180 engines.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Surplus U.S. Army Black Hawks are finding new roles in logging, construction and firefighting.
Air Transport

By Kevin Michaels
The companies’ significant business overlap would have raised major concern with regulatory authorities, and even if it had been approved, the merger would have faced the wrath of customers.
Air Transport

Gaining flights to Cuba may not be the cash cow some U.S. airlines anticipate; the island nation is not equipped for a massive influx of tourists, and U.S. demand for flights to Cuba remains an unknown quantity.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
Thailand’s airline industry has had to confront a daunting array of external and structural problems over the past several months, and while a few carriers are finding ways to prosper, other major players are struggling.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Low-speed wind-tunnel tests confirm handling qualities and powered-lift benefits of unconventional Hybrid Wing Body transport configuration.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Singapore’s submersible UAV; DLR’s unmanned repairman; lightweight allows get a LIFT; AT&T, Intel to connect UAVs; Solar Impulse flying again.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
A pilot facility opens in Abu Dhabi to produce biofuel from plants that will clean the effluent from fish and shrimp farms and help make the growth of aquaculture more environmentally and economically viable.
Aerospace

The U.S. airline industry is booming. Why did one large regional airline company file for bankruptcy?
Air Transport

Keith W. Meurlin
Open skies agreements benefit U.S. passenger and cargo carriers, the U.S. economy and communities around the country.
Air Transport

By Mark Carreau
The mission is designed to give scientists and engineers the human data to develop life-support hardware and operational protocols for crews making the 2-3-year round trip to Mars.
Space

By Bradley Perrett
If the Tianjin plant accelerates output, it will do so as part of Airbus’s push to a rate of 60 aircraft per month, which is supposed to be reached by mid-2019. Stepping up to six a month from four would be easy.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
Airbus is proposing using stepped options to arm dual-use helicopters.
Defense

By Guy Norris, Tony Osborne
MD’s Tilton sets ambitious targets for new single and twin light helicopters.
Defense

By Guy Norris, Tony Osborne
Light helicopters hog the Heli-Expo limelight as aircraft-makers worry about softening markets.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
New players to the world of financing airliner manufacturing and purchases are hearing there is a new normal in industry.
Air Transport

By Jen DiMascio
Republicans who served President George W. Bush list some of Trump's scariest national security flaws.
Defense