Aviation Week & Space Technology

The U.S. aerospace industry continues to shed workers, but it is skill sets that should have leaders most worried.

The world’s largest general aviation extravagance—and the de facto U.S. air show—again proved successful, with a dynamic mix of old and new technologies and players taking the stage

Iran’s most advanced weaponized UAV is in the midst of full production and has been deployed for domestic and international missions.

Frontier Airlines will add 21 destinations and 85 new routes while strengthening its Denver service, making its brand in reach for 90% of Americans.

Logos Technologies has shrunk wide-area moving-target surveillance into a package that can be carried by a tactical unmanned aircraft, and it does not plan to stop there.

The 2016 crash of the Schiaparelli landing module leads to changes the European Space Agency hopes will mean success this time around.

Assembly of Czech training aircraft begins; Thai military preparing for more defense imports; Lockheed wins LRASM contract, and Hughes scores wideband satcom study deal.

Aviation Week’s defense team discusses how Europe’s defense partnerships are evolving.

After decades of promise is hypersonic technology finally verging on operational capability? The U.S. Air Force thinks so, and is laying out high-speed requirements underpinned by a growing budget for sustained R&D.

Joined at the hip for years, Lufthansa and Frankfurt Airport must now compromise as low-cost carriers make inroads into the airline’s biggest hub.

A 20-year-old vision for improving taxiing efficiency may finally be coming to fruition, but in different form.

Japan’s first privately developed rocket has been scheduled for launch on July 29 by developer Interstellar Technologies (IST).

NanoRacks LLC has demonstrated that spacesuit-garbed astronauts working outside the International Space Station can successfully maneuver around the external surfaces of what is to be the first commercially provided airlock.

Interest is mounting in a potential new fleet of low-cost, light-attack aircraft the U.S. and international allies could use to fight terrorists in the Middle East.

SpaceX is shelving plans for upcoming Dragon 2 crew and cargo retrorocket returns to Earth due to the difficulty of meeting certification requirements

Startup says enough data exist to set a sonic boom standard that would allow its 45-seat airliner to fly supersonic flight over land when it enters service in 2023.

New Zealand’s Aviation Security Service plans to deploy a system that will improve the passenger screening process, as well as helping demonstrate the technology’s global potential.

Gen. David Goldfein is leading the charge to create a joint, integrated network he believes will give the U.S. and its allies the edge in battle.

Airbus flies Sagitta; KARI lands tiltrotor; Cranfield leads digital aviation; TsAGI talks quiet supersonics; X-57 makes progress.

Calls are growing for powerplants to be developed specifically to meet the price and performance needs of lower-cost unmanned combat aircraft.

HNA’s Lucky Air appears to be building up in Chengdu as it moves into intercontinental operations. It will also be the HNA unit overseeing creation of a proposed budget carrier there.

A new autothrottle system enables pilots to fly to a certain torque level or airspeed for any portion of a flight, including takeoff and go-around. Aviation Week tests it out.

MiG-35 and Mi-38 are in, Zhukovsky is out as Moscow air show MAKS 2017 highlights Russian military orders for new aircraft and news of a new location for the 2019 show.

Post-Brexit, legacy airlines such as Air France-KLM, Lufthansa and the big three U.S. carriers may believe rolling back the clock would help them. It won’t.

One of the leading voices on military matters, the Arizona senator is pushing for more defense funding and assistance for Ukraine.