Aviation Week & Space Technology

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The Russian aircraft manufacturer is pursuing attack and logistics UAV concepts that have evolved because of the war in Ukraine.

As the AIAA's Aviation Forum and Ascend events come together for the first time in Las Vegas, editors review some of the cutting-edge developments shared there.

Seoul is preparing its future fighter for near-term service and a long-term evolution.

Recent appointments, promotions and honors in the aviation and aerospace industry.

Ortberg faces the challenge of fixing not one company but effectively two: Boeing Commercial Airplanes and Boeing Defense, Space and Security.

The spacecraft’s propulsion system issues are driving plans to end Boeing’s Crew Flight Test.

The CODA system automatically translates and standardizes commercially derived data points to support space domain awareness missions.

A roundup of upcoming conferences and exhibitions.

Readers write about Aviation Week Farnborough coverage and podcasts, Europan Ocean tidal flexing, pilot training and Miles Aircraft’s legacy. Plus: Behind the Scenes at EAA AirVenture.

Questioning of aviation’s net-zero-emissions 2050 target comes as key technologies move toward ground and flight testing.