Joe Anselmo

Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network

Washington, DC

Summary

Joe Anselmo has been Editorial Director of the Aviation Week Network and Editor-in-Chief of Aviation Week & Space Technology since 2013. Based in Washington, D.C., he directs a team of more than two dozen aerospace journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Under his leadership, Aviation Week has won numerous accolades for its in-depth reporting and deep dives into aerospace technology, including the 2017 Grand Neal award for “Top Brand/Overall Editorial Excellence,” business-to-business journalism’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. Writers from the Aviation Week Network also took home six honors at the 2018 Aerospace Media Awards in London.

In 2015, Anselmo and his team spearheaded a digital initiative that provides subscribers with fresh content every day via mobile phones, tablets, or desktop computers. To mark Aviation Week’s 100th anniversary in 2016, the publication’s entire archive – more than 440,000 pages of articles, images, covers and advertisements – was digitized into a searchable online archive. Aviation Week also has accelerated its push into digital media with regular podcasts, videos, data features, infographics and eBooks.

Anselmo has more than 25 years of experience as an editor and reporter with Aviation Week, Congressional Quarterly and the Washington Post Company. He has won three Aerospace Journalist of the Year awards. A graduate of Ohio University, he was elected three times to the National Press Club’s Board of Governors, including one term as board chairman.

 

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Articles

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO and CRAIG COVAULT
NASA is investigating two serious malfunctions during the launch of space shuttle Columbia, a hydrogen leak that could have forced a risky return-to-launch-site abort and an electrical short circuit that greatly increased the risk to the orbiter and crew if other critical failures had occurred. Columbia's crew ultimately reached orbit safely, deployed the $1.5-billion Chandra X-ray Observatory without a hitch, and landed safely back at the Kennedy Space Center on July 27.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
NASA's long-awaited Chandra X-ray Observatory was a year late to the launch pad due to a variety of technical problems. Last week, the project's scientists had to wait some more as two launches of Space Shuttle Columbia were scrubbed, one in dramatic fashion less than a half-second before the main engines were to ignite.

Joseph C. Anselmo
NASA recently abandoned an ambitious mission to land a spacecraft on the comet Tempel 1. Now the agency just wants to blast away at it. Deep Impact, one of two new Discovery science missions approved by NASA last week, is to fire a 1,100-lb. copper projectile into Tempel 1 at 22,300 mph. The collision should create a crater seven stories deep and as big as a football field, allowing a camera and infrared spectrometer on the spacecraft to study the icy debris and ``pristine inner material'' that is blown out.