Jeff has been involved in aerospace journalism since the mid 1990s. Prior to joining Aviation Week, Jeff served as managing editor of Launchspace magazine and the International Space Industry Report. He has been the editor and chief of Aviation Week's Aerospace Daily & Defense Report since 2007 and has been a regular contributor to Aviation Week magazine. He received his B.A. from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
HONEYWELL BEGINS FLIGHT-TESTS OF 13-INCH MICRO AIR VEHICLE - Honeywell began flight tests of its 13-inch Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) at company facilities in Albuquerque, N.M., last month, in anticipation of handing the system over to the Army for evaluation in March (BA, Jan. 3/6).
Despite the fact that Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne already has won the $10 million Ansari X Prize, several of the 25 other teams that registered for the competition are pressing on with plans to fly their own private suborbital space vehicles, according to X Prize Chairman Peter Diamandis. "We had 26 teams in seven countries, and amazingly, we had literally 26 different designs," Diamandis said at a Jan. 13 luncheon in Washington sponsored by the Washington Space Business Roundtable. "None of these looked like anything on the drawing board elsewhere."
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Huygens probe is nearing the end of its 20-day journey to Saturn's moon Titan, where on Jan. 14 it is to descend through the atmosphere and make humanity's first hard-landing attempt in the outer solar system.
