Program Management

By Irene Klotz
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV delivered the USAF's 10th WGS satellite to geosynchronous orbit March 15 following a successful launch from Cape Canaveral.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
With the first launch for a global broadband satellite network behind it, OneWeb has raised another $1.25 billion from investors.
Space

By Bill Carey
Airbus has delivered to UK LCC easyJet the first A320 equipped for enhanced FANS-C data link communications, marking the start of a demonstration of sharing an aircraft’s predicted trajectory with air traffic control (ATC).
Program Management

By Guy Norris, Graham Warwick
NASA’s fiscal 2020 budget request supports the ongoing X-57 Maxwell electric-propulsion and X-59 QueSST low-boom supersonic flight demonstrators, but some within the agency are concerned about future X-planes.
Business Aviation

By Jens Flottau
The statement comes in the aftermath of two 737 MAX 8 crashes in less than five months involving Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines.
Air Transport

By Bradley Perrett
BAE has completed an upgrade for Australia’s Hawk trainers that has prepared the aircraft for possibly 21 more years of service.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
Following up on the legacy of NASA’s aging Great Observatories may depend on breaking a cost spiral that has delayed the JWST and threatened the WFIRST.
Space

Finalists will be announced in early September, with winners to be named during the 2019 Program Excellence banquet.
Program Management

By Steve Trimble
The concept would allow Air Force leaders to hedge against the risk of future technology breakthroughs and surprise enemies with unexpected new capabilities.
Defense and Space

By Guy Norris
Rolls-Royce’s decision to pull the UltraFan from the NMA competition may be a good move by the UK engine-maker, but what happens now?
Air Transport

By Irene Klotz
Acknowledging the reusable rocket technology pioneered by SpaceX and Blue Origin, the U.S. Air Force has dropped the word “expendable” from the name of its orbital launch services acquisition program.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The new vehicle, Dragon 2, is designed, built, owned and operated by SpaceX, with financial backing, technical expertise and oversight provided by NASA.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Boeing Airpower Teaming System is a fighter-like unmanned aircraft specifically designed to be exportable globally.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
The USAF has revealed its life cycle cost estimate—$18.5 billion—for the new helos to guard nuclear missile sites and transport VIPs around Washington.
Program Management

By Guy Norris
Rolls’ composite fan and case evaluation marks the next step toward full-scale UltraFan flight-test demonstration.
Aerospace

By Mark Carreau
NASA has selected a dozen small science and technology demonstration payloads that could be launching to the surface of the Moon using new commercial launch transportation services as soon as the end of 2019.
Program Management

By Richard Aboulafia
Consider the two primary sources of NMA demand: upgauging from single-aisle routes and replacements for current single-aisle jets.
Program Management

By Steve Trimble
The confirmed delay comes four months after the Russian government ordered the Rostec conglomerate to acquire the assets of the MC-21 program from United Aircraft Corp.
Air Transport

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Navy will hold an industry collaborative exchange in March to improve tactical aircraft programs.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s newly selected SPHEREx mission will survey distant galaxies and the Milky Way to help chart the evolution of the universe and the presence of water and organics.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel is sounding an urgent note as the agency’s Commercial Crew Program prepares for test flights of SpaceX and Boeing vehicles.
Space

By Lee Ann Shay
Boeing projects the Middle East will require 63,000 new technicians and 2,990 new aircraft over the next two decades to support the region’s growth.
Program Management

By Jens Flottau
If the A380 program is terminated, the real irony would be that an A350 deal ultimately led to the demise of the behemoth.
Air Transport

By Steve Trimble
A U.S. defense expert says the U.S. Navy should redesign the Lockheed Martin F-35C to perform a future role as a fleet defense fighter and long-range bomber escort.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Triumph Group is unloading a slew of businesses in the days ahead of its next financial update for Wall Street.
Program Management