Aviation Week & Space Technology

The money is part of Madrid’s broader purchase plan calling for a €171-million investment in medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial system technology through 2020, though the first UAS is not expected to be operational before 2017.

If the FAA can’t keep UAVs away from airports, maybe Congress can. The Pentagon plans more UAV patrols. Air Line pilots prepare for a decision on open skies, and Democrats plead for budget talks.

British investigators call for more testing of lithium battery-powered aircraft equipment.

British safety regulator aims to simplify unmanned aircraft operating rules after near-misses close to major airports.

Carrier looks to new service to give it a leg up in transcontinental market.

Japan probably has the third or fourth largest sigint establishment in the world, ranking behind the U.S. and Britain but possibly ahead of Russia and China, say Australian researchers.

Lockheed’s plan builds on the foundation of the constantly upgraded U-2 platform to fill perceived gap in Air Force ISR capability.

If Chinese economic expansion slows down, it will only add to the general slide in growth of international air passenger traffic.

Human missions to Mars could prove difficult without artificial gravity. Why has the space community not moved forward on this basic principle?

Airlines in Latin America’s largest economy are having to deal with a massive drop in demand.

Team developing V-280 Valor advanced tiltrotor for U.S. Army’s mid-2030s Future Vertical Lift rotorcraft is using a full-scale cockpit mock-up to define concepts for an advanced cockpit.

Gena Lovett (see photo) has been appointed vice president-operations at Boeing Defense, Space & Security, headquartered in St. Louis. She succeeds Bill Schnettgoecke, who has retired. Lovett is responsible for manufacturing and company initiatives at 20 global facilities. She was most recently chief diversity officer at Alcoa, and before that director of manufacturing there

Tokyo’s defense focus shifts, but budget pressures and a pacific population stand in the way of new needs

Japanese islands stand between China and free access to the Pacific. So Tokyo is concentrating on defending them.

Can water at the Moon’s poles provide rocket fuel for human exploration deeper into the Solar System?

Agreement calls for experimental facility and sample carriers to begin traveling to the International Space Station in early 2017.

Software update, expected by late August, could mean full icing flight envelope clearance for the fleet, if the FAA approves.

Why German hypersonic researchers believe tapping into a tiny fraction of the global long-haul air passenger market could be a boost to low-cost access to space.

Southeast Asian carrier moves past its restructuring and looks to grow with new Airbus 320neos

Launch deals follow agreement to jointly develop a dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar satellite.

Yingling Aviation is selling remanufactured Cessna 172s priced at less than half the cost of new.

Want to get airborne to avoid congestion? Or land and drive to get through bad weather? Or just have fun in the air and on the road? There are several options on the horizon.

Marginal weather costs airlines billions of dollars related to ceiling and visibility issues; now rules and guidance systems on the horizon could greatly reduce that amount

Electric propulsion for satellites is efficient, but low-thrust. An infrastructure of power-generation satellites in orbit would help speed the time it takes to change orbits

Unmanned aircraft in the news: hunting submarines in Canada; designing UAS to fight wildfires; forecasting weather with small UAVs; hybrid propulsion for small air vehicles