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
In a twisted turn of events, Mobile Communications Holdings Inc. (MCHI) announced plans last week to award a contract to build its Ellipso satellite telephone system to Boeing instead of Orbital Sciences Corp., the company originally selected for the job. A spurned Orbital Sciences quickly countered with a preliminary agreement to build spacecraft for a competing mobile satellite project, CCI International's Ecco system. CCI had earlier said its satellite work would go to Matra Marconi Space.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
A new spate of ground software development problems has forced NASA to delay the launch of its first Earth Observing System spacecraft, EOS AM-1, until at least the end of this year. The troubles have taken NASA by surprise because they do not involve the oft-criticized EOS science and data processing software that is more than two years behind schedule. Instead, they involve less-complex flight operations software being developed to command and monitor multiple EOS spacecraft.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
Seeking to respond to the ever-expanding size of commercial satellites, Lockheed Martin is enlarging the payload capacity of its newest Atlas booster and is considering a major addition to its Athena launcher family that would compete head-to-head with Boeing's Delta 2.