Aviation Week & Space Technology

Israeli satellite maker and subsidiary aim to offer data products collected from UAVs and ground-based sensors in addition to satellites.

Bombardier’s sales pitch to Airbus for the C Series has failed. While Airbus complimented the aircraft, it was not attractive enough for Airbus to invest in the struggling program.

In a key step toward opening up airspace to unmanned aircraft, standards developer RTCA has published interim standards for detect-and-avoid systems and command-and-control links. But they are only first steps.

NASA has named Renee Wynn (see photo) chief information officer. She will be responsible for strengthening the agency’s IT security and ensuring that information asset procedures are in line with all federal policy requirements. Wynn replaces Larry Sweet, who has stepped down.

Options ranging from requiring registration of unmanned aircraft through requiring operator testing mandatory jail sentences for reckless flying raised at Congressional hearing on UAV safety.

The Google Lunar X-Prize was set to expire at the end of this year unless at least one of the competitors contracted for a launch first.

DEFENSE The second of three at-sea development-test (DT) phases for the U.S. Navy’s Lockheed Martin F-35C began on Oct. 2 when two test aircraft, CF-03 and -05, landed on the aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower off the U.S. East Coast. The two-week DT-II phase follows DT-I in 2014.

U.S. experts on Russian actions in Syria; FAA prepares big penalty for wayward UAV; over-cost defense programs face fines.

NASA is studying a modular habitat that could be stationed near the Moon.

Scientists, engineers and human spaceflight visionaries will gather in Jerusalem on Oct. 12 to ponder where to go in the Solar System after the International Space Station, how to get there and who will make the trip.

Is the Defense Department serious about changing traditional ways of doing business to improve the affordability of weapons systems?

U.S and U.K. military units will begin test flights using a ski jump ramp in the build-up to trials with the U.K. Royal Navy’s new, ramp-configured HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier in 2018-19.

Are unmanned air vehicles worth their impact on the Air Force budget? We don’t really know.

Rolls-Royce finally upgrades Indianapolis facility; Latvia buys LockMart radars; Sukhoi delivers more fighter bombers; Northrop makes an F-35 fuselage for Japan; and the U.S. advances the sale of Reapers to Spain.

Their use marks a major expansion in the U.S. Air Force’s ability to spy on other satellites.

General Electric’s T700 is one of the most-produced military engines. Now the U.S. Army has launched a competition to replace the popular turboshaft and reengine its AH-64 Apaches and UH-60 Black Hawks.

California, in particular, is sure to feel a strong impact from a new regulation lowering the permissible level of ozone ppb. Satellites can help.

An international court ordered the state-owned satellite company to pay damages of $672 million to Devas Multimedia.

Once a monopoly, ULA is now fighting for engines to compete against upstart SpaceX.

No longer content with Boeing 737s, WestJet is preparing to fly 767s to Europe. And if all goes well, WestJet could soon place its first real order for long-haul aircraft.

Engine issues in testing caused a stop to A320neo flight tests, but Airbus still hopes to meet its year-end target of first deliveries to Qatar Airways.

The EU’s new Aviation Package is due in December but it will not include a new fair competition law for airlines.

ICAO-backed global market-based measure slated to regulate aviation emissions enters the decisive phase of negotiations.

Dec. 11 is close to Christmas and ought to bring tidings of good cheer. But as the new “fiscal cliff” deadline approaches, it could feel a lot more like Halloween.

Boeing could have sustained the venerable C-17 line profitably for at least few more years, but several factors dictated that closing it is the smarter way to go.