NASA

By Guy Norris
The slotted transonic airfoil—studied by NASA is the 1960s to delay drag rise and enable higher cruise speeds—will debut on Otto’s Phantom 3500 business jet.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
A small transonic wing section, tucked under a NASA F-15B for flight testing, could pave the way for more efficient next-generation airliner wing designs.
Emerging Technologies

By Irene Klotz
Blue Origin’s first lunar lander is en route to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for thermal vacuum testing ahead of launch later this year.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
NASA plans to move up the four-person SpaceX Crew-12 Dragon mission to the International Space Station.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
The human spaceflight community becomes sensitive this time of year, with three memorial dates on the calendar for NASA missions that ended in disasters.
Operations & Safety

By Robert Wall, Garrett Reim
Space maneuvers to avoid collisions are becoming more frequent.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
NASA is assembling an anomaly review board to investigate its loss of contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
NASA is joining a White House initiative to recruit tech-savvy individuals to spend two years as government employees.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Guy Norris
NASA says the two-person flight crew of a vintage WB-57F high altitude research aircraft were unharmed after the aircraft made a gear-up landing.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Oman has become the 61st signatory of the Artemis Accords, a set of nonbinding international space agreements.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Irene Klotz
NASA says it is re-targeting the practice launch countdown for its Artemis II lunar flyby mission to no sooner than Jan. 31, two days earlier than planned.
Operations & Safety

By Graham Warwick
P&WC advances hybrid propulsion; GE’s hybrid Passport success; Europe’s Clean Aviation launches ultraefficient regional projects; UAE orders uncrewed VTOLs.
Emerging Technologies

By Mark Carreau
In response to a NASA inspector general’s audit, agency leadership has agreed to accelerate implementation of changes to its mission support services.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Guy Norris
Ground tests of a modified Passport business jet engine in hybrid-electric mode mark a key step toward development of a future single-aisle propulsion system.
Emerging Technologies

By Mark Carreau
NASA's Artemis II astronauts entered medical quarantine at the Johnson Space Center Jan. 23 ahead of a potential Feb. 6 launch.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
An RS-25 engine has passed a follow-up hot fire test, clearing it for installation on the NASA Artemis IV mission’s Space Launch System (SLS).
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
NASA has named eight U.S. companies that are eligible to bid for the development of the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
Congress pushes back on Trump’s plan to cut NASA spending.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Staff
Readers write about the Boeing 757 and Airbus A321XLR, Aviation Week’s Space Tech Challenge Awards, the Check 6 podcast on GCAP and NASA’s future under Jared Isaacman.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Irene Klotz
NASA is aiming to send a crew of four into deep space for the first time since 1972.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
NASA has selected three science mission payloads for launch by Commercial Lunar Payload Services providers to study the Moon and galactic cosmic rays.
Space Exploration

By Guy Norris
NASA is poised to begin flight tests of a representative stub wing section that is aimed at dramatically enhancing the drag-reducing benefits of natural laminar flow (NLF) in next-generation, swept wing airliners.
Emerging Technologies

By Irene Klotz
Vast is delaying launch of its Haven-1 demonstration space station from May to the first quarter of 2027, the company said Jan. 20.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
As it surges ahead with ambitious objectives and constrained budgets, NASA faces five top challenges, a new report from the Office of Inspector General says.
Budget, Policy & Regulation