Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Guy Norris
Modification of an ex-Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 airliner to carry and launch Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne is well underway in Waco, Texas.
Commercial Space

NASA is fully immersed in a five-year program to bring scheduling efficiency into the departure queues of the National Airspace System, in other words, getting rid of the “conga line.”
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Rapid growth in the Ka-band high-throughput satellite market is putting pressure on spectrum. Moving to higher frequencies could unlock more capacity.
Commercial Space

The Trump administration’s space agency transition team, NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX are all working on various approaches to a crewed Moon flyaround.
Space

By Guy Norris
The supply-chain changes are the result of a rigorous category-by-category parts review process.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Thierry Dubois, Mark Carreau
Space-debris mitigation is getting more attention as companies prepare to launch thousands of new smallsats into low Earth orbit, where the environment is already filling up with dangerous space junk.
Space

By Kevin Michaels
An import tax could imperil large U.S. aerospace surpluses with China and Mexico.
Air Transport

Facing a new information age of warfare, the U.S. air arm is launching an effort to overhaul its command and control network.
Defense

Spirit Airlines President and CEO Robert Fornaro says legacy carriers are offering prices that match those of the ultra-LCCs, but not in enough volume to pose a serious threat.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Guy Norris
Lockheed Martin broadens HWB possibilities as design focuses on bid for NASA X-plane demonstrator
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Loon surprises Google; biofuels advance; a COW flies; long-distance delivery; and more UAS news
Aerospace

By Bradley Perrett, Jay Menon
Defense ministry fighter developers have completed studies of configurations and feasibility for India’s proposed stealth aircraft. They are awaiting a go-ahead for full-scale development.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Could Russia, UAE defense deal pave way for Emirati access to F-35?
Defense

By Bradley Perrett, Jay Menon, Tony Osborne
The Advanced Hawk has an engine more powerful than the one in India’s current trainer fleet. BAE and HAL also offer synthetic features in inflight training and a refueling probe.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
When it comes to cutting regulations, the U.S. has seen this movie before, and we know how it ends—or at least how it has every time before.
Air Transport

By Jen DiMascio
Gen. Goldfein says the lack of a fiscal 2017 budget could do more damage than any enemy.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
UPS and delivery-vehicle maker Workhorse demonstrate how truck-launched unmanned aircraft could make package delivery in rural areas more efficient and sustainable.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
A new financing round brings strategic investors, including Airbus and Microsoft, on board a startup that wants to enable safe and efficient large-scale operations for small UAS in low-altitude airspace.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

Colorado will spend $6 million for a remote system it hopes will bring affordable control tower services at a handful of key mountain airports.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By William Garvey
Corporate aircraft operators clamor to join Aviation Safety Action Program of Air Charter Safety Foundation ASAP.
Business Aviation

By Jen DiMascio
Study shows dramatic rise in U.S. weapons exports, MBDA seeks new markets for Sea Venom missile, Russia and India agree to more cooperation on T-50 fighter.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Developers in India have designed the IMRH to outperform the Mi-17 on a little less weight, partly by using an airframe made mainly of carbon-fiber composite.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

The change in administration means change in the spaceflight community. There will be risks.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
For the first time since last summer, SpaceX successfully got cargo to the International Space Station, including many new research projects.
Commercial Space

By Jen DiMascio
Limitations on the F-35’s strike capability may prompt fresh thinking in the military about how it uses and upgrades existing aircraft.
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