Aviation Week & Space Technology

Electric motor startup MagniX locates global headquarters and a second engineering center in aviation’s biggest industrial cluster.

Startup Astrobotic aims to deliver payloads to the lunar surface once a year, starting with the first flight scheduled for 2020.

Eventually, the ISS will need to leave low Earth orbit. One option may be to boost it into a 1,000-year storage orbit for future generations to salvage.

White House says it wants an expert in building public-private partnerships to serve with Bridenstine at NASA.

The National Defense Industrial Association president/CEO says Israel’s first combat use of the F-35 is advantageous for the U.S.

Bombardier and ATR predict rising demand for smaller cargo aircraft in this region, as growing economies and geographical factors create opportunities.

Boeing NeXt brings together the aerospace giant’s research investments to develop new markets such as on-demand cargo drones, urban air taxis and even hypersonic airliners.

M&A in the A&D sector is surging and may be on its way to new levels across the board. Many advisors are wondering who is next?

JNAAM will be a Meteor with a Japanese gallium-nitride AESA. Prototypes should be ready in Japan’s fiscal 2023.

NASA and JAXA flight tests show significant cuts in approach noise through treatments to reduce airframe acoustic emissions.

Environmental group says new supersonic transports will have higher emissions, noise and fuel burn than subsonic airliners—requiring either new engines or new standards.

Could an upstart use A220s and Embraer E2s to overfly hubs?

BlackFly Fixed-Wing eVTOL; Loon and Wing Graduate; Airbus, Singapore Team on Drones; XQ-58A nears flights; Raytheon’s 100-kW laser.

Rolls-Royce also has run the new core for the future family at full power in its Advance3 demonstrator.

Type certification of Rolls-Royce’s newest widebody powerplant, the Trent 7000, is “imminent” as the engine makes its first appearance at this year’s Farnborough Airshow beneath the wings of the Airbus A330-900neo.

A full-scale mockup was on display at the Royal Air Tattoo to show off of the MQ-8 Fire Scout's capabilities.

The head of UTC Aerospace Systems talks about his new combined company with Rockwell Collins, pressures from Boeing and the all-digital future of aerospace.

The business case for Boeing’s NMA may be hard to close, especially for suppliers, as cost and return on investment issues remain.

HorizonX enables Boeing to explore the risks and rewards of disruption and avoid the fate of older companies brought down by technology advances.

A joint survey conducted by Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Aviation Week indicates airlines want an aircraft that resembles a more capable successor to the 737 rather than the 757.

It appears the front-running position to power Boeing’s new mid-market airplane is CFM’s to lose as the airframer starts evaluating proposals from engine OEMs.

Grown in size, the KF-X has arrived at a weight category halfway between the Eurofighter Typhoon and Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning.

The U.S. Air Force search for a T-X trainer is headed toward a decision by the end of summer.

The NMA would break new ground for Boeing by being its first airliner to be designed completely interdependently with the production system.

A liftoff thrust approaching 6,000 metric tons and mass exceeding 4,000 metric tons would evidently apply to the largest version, which would have four boosters.