Aviation Week & Space Technology

Then there was one: What could really be behind ULA’s decision not to compete against SpaceX?

Boeing looks forward to KC-46 aerial refueling demo after overcoming past technical, cost hurdles.

Smart bombs for Syria; U.S. Army adds to Lakota purchase; U.S. Navy tests Lrasm, and Turkey cancels missile defense buy from China.

Not all activist shareholders are Gordon Gekko, and not everything they represent is bad for the A&D industry.

Improved observation data from various spacecraft confirm that Earth is changing, as other planets have, and not necessarily for the better.

New students will soon be able to learn with a virtual instructor in an immersive environment as part of a new private-pilot curriculum soon to be released by Redbird Flight.

Airbus Defense and Space is facing schedule challenges as it develops a European service module that will power the NASA Orion crew capsule, including documentation issues for Shuttle-era propulsion systems and NASA safety concerns over redundancy.

Gogo has created a new satellite platform with more bandwidth than ever. But will airlines add it?

Airlines are broadening seating options, by upgrading their premium cabins and downgrading economy class. There is a danger, however, that if airlines go too far in either direction, they could drive passengers toward other options.

The Kenyan flag carrier’s traffic suffered from a series of attacks by Islamist militants in the East African nation and the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, but it was also damaged by an overambitious expansion plan.

Despite improving profits, cargo weakness and other issues remain a concern for the Asia-Pacific airline industry.

GE's advanced turboprop represents an all-out assault on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6's dominance of the business and general aviation turboprop market, and it builds on the bridgehead established with the smaller H80 engine.

“There will be more spending under these circumstances,” French president Francois Hollande told a rare joint session of the French parliament in Versailles Nov. 16, three days after the Paris terror attacks.

NASA is betting that the search for the signatures of life can be enhanced by the massive Space Launch System now being built.

Darpa program takes commercial tablets, digital communications and high-performance computing and enables air and ground forces to coordinate close air support using shared situational awareness.

Ten years in the making, Cobalt’s five-seat Co50 emerges first as an experimental aircraft with a plan for certification by 2017.

Insitu launches UAV from UAV; Airbus flies diesel helo; 3-D printing a fast-jet UAV; NASA explores Prandtl’s wing; XTI takes crowdfunding step.

British Airways and other legacy carriers are increasingly tapping the expertise of low-cost carrier executives to increase efficiency.

If you believe LRS-B cost numbers or that Congress will buy 100 of them, you’re ignoring history.

Google X executive sets 2017 as the target date to begin commercial deliveries by unmanned aircraft, but will the technology and the airspace be ready by then?

With 9,900 aircraft forecast to retire in the next decade, nontraditional players are chasing the disassembly market.

The sight of the MRJ flying past Mount Fuji will gladden the many Japanese who have long been frustrated by the mismatch between the country’s advanced aerospace technology, notably in manufacturing, and its failure to make its own complete airliner since the 1970s.

Airbus makes clear at the Dubai Airshow that it plans to build the new A380 version and possibly a larger A350 variant.

Commercial space bill nears final passage; Middle East nations seek precision weapons; DHS pledges new security enhancements; and Ex-Im Bank reauthorization takes another step forward.

After the failure of the E-10, Saab re-imagines the multi-sensor, single platform surveillance capability.