Aviation Week & Space Technology

Some co-founders at new space tech startups are trying to codify innovation.

Multiple energy-dense battery options are becoming available for aviation use, but are they good enough?

The airlines await final approvals for their pending merger following the expiration of a U.S. Justice Department antitrust review period.

Amid growing skepticism that airlines can achieve net zero emissions in 2050, a report lays out a road map for rapidly scaling up SAF. Listen in as one of those skeptics, Aviation Week’s Graham Warwick, talks with a co-author of the plan.

The A330neo, not yet the success story Airbus has hoped for, may find its biggest opportunity in the Asia-Pacific region.

The startup’s blended wing plan is moving forward with new airline funding and a growing development team.

In addition to venturing outside the capsule, the Jared Isaacman-backed Polaris Dawn mission aims to break the 1966 altitude record.

Advanced manufacturing companies are trying to automate complex aerospace work.

The company has a billion-dollar industrialization plan to “hyperscale” manufacturing of its diverse defense product portfolio.

Newly released details of recent Chinese spacecraft maneuvers tracked by U.S.-based observers show increasing capability in key areas.

The first U.S. military payload to be hosted aboard an international partner’s spacecraft is now in orbit.

Divergent Technologies’ fixtureless assembly cell uses 23 robotic arms to build structures.

SpaceX leans on fellow operators of the company’s 3D printers in a pinch.

FAA funds sustainability projects; faster cryogenic fueling; hydrogen in a box; and sharkskins for 777s.

Prospective pilots have plenty of options for earning a commercial license, but better standards would improve the process.

New interceptors, radars, and command and control are on the near-term agenda.

International Airlines Group called off the Air Europa deal due to regulatory hurdles.

Airbus Helicopters CEO Bruno Even contends that helicopters and uncrewed aircraft systems are natural battlefield teammates.

Airbus is really excited about an open-rotor engine. Boeing not so much. Here’s why.

Indonesia, Poland and Saudi Arabia are the F-15EX’s next targets for exports contracts.

The service is contemplating nonkinetic space fires and new roles for its soldiers in a changing era of space-based warfare.

As European nations grow increasingly worried about security in the Indo-Pacific region, their air forces explore scenarios for operating there.

A U.S. Army Theater High Altitude Area Defense missile destroyed this Aerotherm reentry vehicle launched by a Coleman Research Hera rocket on Aug. 2, 1999.

The U.S. and Sweden are dangling incentives to secure combat aircraft orders in Thailand and the Philippines.

Power-dense motors; controls from high flyers; rechargeable thermal battery; in-space refueling port.