Aviation Week editors talk with Airbus Space Chief about the OneWeb venture into the small satellite, low Earth orbit market and navigating the dramatic changes in the industry.
The heads of the U.S. Army say they “won’t stand for delays” on the multiservice Future Vertical Lift program, despite a re-phasing in the fiscal 2019 budget.
France’s armed forces ministry launched a program on Feb. 28 to renew the country’s fleet of electronic intelligence aircraft with three special-mission Falcon jets.
Growth opportunities from the digital transformation of the commercial aviation sector will come from better airport, air traffic and airline operations, as well as through predictive maintenance and better asset tracking, Frost & Sullivan consultants said in a recent report.
The Pentagon advanced research agency plans to launch a program, called Blackjack, in fiscal 2019 to leverage commercial mass-production capabilities to demonstrate a proliferated smallsat constellation in low Earth orbit that can constantly keep track of “very large numbers” of targets.
Boeing has begun a three-year program in Australia to develop technologies for autonomous vehicles and deepen its understanding of how to satisfy regulators.
Raytheon has been selected by Lockheed Martin to produce electro-optical distributed aperture systems (EO-DAS) for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.
Robinson Helicopter is stepping up studies of a diesel-powered variant of its R44 light helicopter as part of plans to hike performance and reduce fuel burn.
The technology transition program, an Air Force budget line that funds advanced component development and prototyping, has grown exponentially since being established in fiscal 2014 and that trend is set to continue.
Bombardier has made a last-ditch attempt to reopen the U.S. investigation into pricing of the C Series, but may have been misled by reporting on the increased range Embraer is now quoting for the E190-E2.
The Google-backed $30-million contest to fly and operate a privately funded spacecraft on the Moon before March 31 is ending without any contestants ever blasting off.
There are multiple factors contributing to the current sluggishness, including aircraft program issues, capacity considerations and airline strategy factors.
Companies such as Blue Origin, Orbital ATK, SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are jostling to be a part of the future U.S. military spacelift market. Photo: Orbital ATK
Researchers have made significant progress with morphing wings, bringing the long-sought dream of copying birds on how to achieve aerodynamics closer to reality.
Boeing is still working to fix three deficiencies related to the refueling process of the KC-46 that must be resolved before the tanker can enter service.
