Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Bradley Perrett
Greater demands on engine performance have ranked high among the challenges for China’s Chang’e 4 lunar mission.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Compared with a coronagraph, a starshade has a wider field of view and can allow the telescope to see planets closer to their star.
Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio
Russia’s new ground-based satellite-zapping system; Indonesia buys Bell, Airbus helos; India’s Tejas edges closer to full operations; Staff changes at Pentagon.
Defense

By Lee Hudson, Steve Trimble
The commander-in-chief’s attacks put the USS Gerald R. Ford’s subsystem in the spotlight.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Skepticism in the supply chain lingers over going beyond new production targets for making airliners already outlined for 2019.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
A new year’s prediction: 2019 will see “big money” finally buy in on aerospace—or decide to leave it for another generation. The chances are 50-50.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Rolls-Royce-led team wants to beat 210-mph record set by Siemens-modified Extra 330 in 2017.
Aerospace

By Jens Flottau
The former Southwest CEO was a master of employee relations and an important innovator.
Air Transport

Brian M. Argrow
If the U.S. is to retain leadership in hypersonics, a sustained increase in university research programs is critical.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
UK will strengthen drone laws later this year with new register and online safety test.
Air Transport

Tim Wuerfel
More automation does not necessarily lead to more safety; the role of pilots needs to be reconsidered.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
With more than five decades of ducted fan and tiltrotor experience, Bell is combining new technology with old concepts to take on emerging air taxi revolution.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Electric speed bid; electrification road map; Boom builds funds; UAM market forecast; other technology news.
Aerospace

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus is making the most of new communications technologies to help carriers share safety information.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris, Steve Trimble
General Atomics accelerates MQ-9B flight-test progress as UK issues airworthiness requirements for Protector RG1 variant.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The Avangard test highlights the looming threat facing NATO from Russian hypersonic weaponry.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
The manufacturer is preparing to begin series production in 2019. A separate requirement for attack helicopters has been deferred.
Defense

By Michael Bruno, Joe Anselmo
From reshaping the supply chain to big wins in defense, his actions have reverberated across the industry.
Air Transport

By William Garvey
After recently acquiring WACO Aircraft, the president of the company plans to double worker headcount and production rate of its biplanes.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
New-model deliveries poised to bring a needed boost to a fitter, more focused business-aircraft industry
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Western UAV manufacturers could find a way back into the Middle Eastern UAV market as challenges with Chinese-made models mount.
Defense

By Bill Carey
Training partnerships, facility expansions and simulator sales point to concerted effort to produce pilots.
Connected Aerospace

By Richard Aboulafia
Halfway in, the Trump administration’s effect on the industry is muted, and there are major issues undecided.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
As the Ariane 6 program faces an unfavorable market, Europe’s institutional players have yet to put their money where their mouths are.
Space

Airline fees and NextGen are among the key issues facing new House Aviation subcommittee head Rick Larsen, who represents Washington state's second congressional district.
Air Transport