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
A 124 X 12-mi. strip of rolling plains has been chosen as the touchdown site for NASA's Mars Polar Lander, which is due to arrive on Dec. 3 for a three-month study of the unique region around the planet's barren southern pole. NASA officials selected the landing site from an area the size of California after studying imagery and 3D topographic measurements gathered since June by the orbiting Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The location contains some surface features but no slopes steeper than 10 deg.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
It's D-Day for Iridium. This week, the $4.85-billion global satellite venture must reach a debt restructuring agreement with its investors, lenders and bondholders. Without one, Iridium likely would have to file for bankruptcy protection or, at the extreme worst, liquidate and sell off its constellation of 66 low-Earth orbit satellites.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
An extended fairing developed to allow the Ariane 5 booster to launch larger payloads was blown apart during a separation test inside the world's largest vacuum chamber, the Space Power Facility at NASA Glenn Research Center's Plumbrook facility in Sandusky, Ohio.