Aviation Week & Space Technology

ISS crewmembers have taken a first, small bite out of the problem of keeping astronauts fed on deep-space missions.

How an aerospace metals supplier drew the interest of one of the world’s savviest investors and led to a mega-deal.

The cost of ballistic missile interceptors, and the chance of failure, is high, but lasers pose their own efficiency and cost challenges.

Aviation Week and its readers mourn the loss of a unique voice.

DEFENSE After years of delays, the U.S. Army and Navy have awarded Lockheed Martin a $66.3 million contract to develop a dual-mode millimeter-wave-radar/semi-active-laser guidance section for the Hellfire II air-to-surface missile under the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile program.

Senator decries added airline fees; geometry helps figure out Ukrainian plane downing; FAA investigates Love Field; and a special exception in American Samoa

The A&D industry finds it can’t always get what it wants in the workforce; but it gets what it needs.

The Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industry sectors continue to evolve and face their own special challenges:

Hear what disciplines are most in demand, salaries, sign-on bonuses, and the value that work/life balance plays in the compensation package.

Weakening ruble could impede Russia’s air force bomber and fighter development programs.

Russia bolsters Arctic military units to reinforce claims on the region’s natural resources and shipping lanes

Finland wants a multirole fighter and ground-based air defenses to replace its F/A-18 Hornet fleet.

A pair of new histories reveals little-known details about the interaction of the U.S. space program and the civil rights movement in the South.

Lasers, microwave weapons and railguns have flopped before. Here are some ways to stop that from happening again.

Volatile commodity prices and currency exchange rates threaten the defense spending outlook, but there are positive flip sides for governments and defense contractors alike.

Aircraft carrier arrangement becomes another casualty of Ukraine incursion.

Climate changes are making the northern reaches of greater economic and strategic interest, but the U.S. military has a long way to catch up to the Russians and other nations.

Berkshire Hathaway’s bid to acquire Precision Castparts and Google’s restructuring are among the developments discussed by Aviation Week's editors.

Marines eye improvements in maintenance and multiship functionality for operational F-35Bs, but other nations wait for more robust versions.

NASA has chosen Lunar IceCube for inclusion of secondary smallsat payloads on the the multibillion-dollar SLS-Orion test flight, which could provide potential encouragement for researchers to push deeper into space using CubeSat technologies.

At perihelion, the ESA mission will be able to glimpse the effect of that approach on the comet’s surface.

NASA funds further study of a propulsion system that could dramatically reduce the time required to explore the outer reaches of the Solar System and beyond.

The Australian carrier sees huge growth potential in Asian markets but is having trouble getting its expansion plans approved by governments.

A higher cost of capital combined with sustained low fuel prices would make for a very interesting ride in the years ahead.

Severely tested by adverse economics, airlines in Russia are adapting by going leaner.