Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Thierry Dubois
Startups Isar Aerospace, PLD Space and Rocket Factory Augsburg already have agreed to use the refurbished ELM-Diamant launch complex in Kourou, French Guiana.
Space

By Helen Massy-Beresford, Adrian Schofield, Christine Boynton, Lori Ranson
Digital advances help airlines capitalize on seat choices, onboard sales and more.
Airlines & Lessors

By Guy Norris
Guy Norris talks with CEO Tom Vice about the spinoff-turned-prime’s growth plans as its space defense business surges and its spaceplane prepares for flight.
Space Symposium

By Guy Norris, Steve Trimble, Matthew Jouppi
Aviation Week experts dissect recent comments from a Chinese general on the secretive Xian H-20 and look at where the bomber would fit in the PLAAF's structure.
Check 6

By Irene Klotz
While NASA mulls plans to bring the samples to Earth, the collection is growing.
Space

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

A roundup of upcoming conferences and exhibitions.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

Recent appointments, promotions and honors in the aviation and aerospace industry.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Garrett Reim
The U.S. military wants terminals to connect with multiple satellite constellations.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
A new Royal Air Force strategy lays out plans for the introduction of larger systems after having developed small, swarming platforms.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Readers write about Boeing’s problems, microwave weapons, KAI’s vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle, futuristic concepts and Climate Impulse project partner Syensqo.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Irene Klotz
The company is confident a spate of hardware issues and oversights are behind it.
Space

By Sean Broderick, Michael Bruno, Steve Trimble, Irene Klotz, Guy Norris
Boeing’s new leadership in Commercial Airplanes and at the top are likely just the beginning of major changes at the manufacturing giant.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
Umbra Space is the latest commercial space company to show that bistatic coupling of two radar satellites could be used to implement moving target indication.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Sweden is beginning to ponder what follows the Gripen as it looks to preserve its national combat aircraft development capability.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The commission and major sustainable aviation fuel producer send reassurance on mandate volumes.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Anthony L. Velocci, Jr.
Two inconvienent truths about the tumult at Boeing.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Continuing an annual tradition dating back to 1957, Aviation Week Network editors honored a wide variety of industry accomplishments.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Thierry Dubois
Demonstrators built under Clean Sky 2, the project’s predecessor, were exhibited at the annual forum as a source of motivation.
Emerging Technologies

By Joe Anselmo, Guy Norris
In a wide-ranging interview, Culp talks about the new company’s future and says he has no interest in taking his turnaround skills to Boeing.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Ben Goldstein
The two front-runners in the nascent U.S. air taxi market have staked out sharply different paths in their manufacturing strategies.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
Future battlefields with dispersed units and contested logistics are driving DARPA’s new portfolio of disruptive investments.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
High-speed testbeds make progress; validating a digital twin; non-CO2 emissions road map; power-beamed UAV; SAF via bacteria.
Emerging Technologies

By Matthew Fulco
The U.S. is marshaling unprecedented resources to shore up its chipmaking capabilities. Results thus far are mixed.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Brian Everstine
After years of scattered attempts to keep pilots in service failed to change the trend, the Air Force is renewing outreach to its aircrews.
Budget, Policy & Operations