Space Industry Analysis
May 09, 2016
One of Aviation Week's most popular and distinguishing features has been hands-on flight reports written by the magazine’s pilots and engineers.
May 06, 2016
One thing holds as true today as it did in 1916: It’s all about the future.
May 06, 2016
Starting 13 years after Kitty Hawk, Aviation Week has been there to document almost the entire history of the aerospace industry.
May 06, 2016
We reveal what you deem to be the top five Aviation Week covers of all time in defense, space, commercial aviation and business aviation.
May 06, 2016
Aviation and aerospace advanced rapidly in the first decades after the Wright brothers’ 1903 flight. Wind tunnels brought understanding of lift and drag, wood-and-wire biplanes gave way to the stressed-skin monoplanes, wing warping to hydraulic-boosted flight controls
May 06, 2016
Two technology thrusts that continue to reshape aerospace, materials and computers, began to have a major impact in the 1950s and 60s. Computer-aided design became crucial as airframes moved from bonded-metal structures to carbon-fiber composites. Computational fluid dynamics became the key to advances in aerodynamics.
Jan 20, 2022
Canada on Jan. 20 unveiled a strategy for satellite-based Earth observation to boost its industry’s market share and academic prowess.
Jan 20, 2022
A new Link 16 antenna designed to operate in space has been delivered to one of the two teams signed up to demonstrate Transport Layer satellites later this year.
Jan 20, 2022
The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office on Jan. 20 awarded contracts to five companies to provide synthetic aperture radar capabilities as part of the agency’s effort to guide innovation and collect commercial remote sensing capabilities for national security and defense missions.
Jan 19, 2022
The U.S. Space Force this spring will finish an analysis of technologies that can serve a space-based Ground Moving Target Indicator mission, moving the role away from aircraft and into orbit.
Jan 19, 2022
Two Russian cosmonauts on Jan. 19 completed the first in a series of up to nine spacewalks planned over 2022 to fully integrate Russia’s new multiport Prichal docking and Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory modules to the International Space Station.
Jan 19, 2022
Radian Aerospace has unveiled plans for “the world’s first fully reusable horizontal takeoff and landing, single-stage to orbit spaceplane” for sending passengers and cargo to low Earth orbit.
Jan 19, 2022
ESA and Roscosmos were previously forced to postpone the launch of the Mars exploration mission from 2020 to 2022.
Jan 19, 2022
Satellite-powered hyperspectral imagery and analytics startup HySpecIQ is aiming to raise more funds and grow its small staff ahead of an expected September 2023 launch of its first of 12 orbital assets.