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
Five years ago, a forecast prepared by Arianespace projected that the growing size of geosynchronous telecommunications satellites would top out at 3 metric tons. The Ariane 5 booster, with an initial design capacity of 5.9 metric tons, appeared to be uniquely positioned. It could launch two state-of-the-art spacecraft at a time, generating new economies of scale and securing Arianespace's domination of the commercial launch market. But things haven't worked out as planned.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
Almost two years after it lifted off, NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (Near) spacecraft returned for a close pass of Earth on its way to a scheduled encounter with a 25-mi.-long asteroid next January. The 2-hr. swingby of Earth on Jan. 22-23, seven months after Near flew past and imaged an asteroid beyond Mars, provided the spacecraft with a critical gravity assist to put it on a trajectory toward its main target, asteroid 433 Eros.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
NASA and Sen. John Glenn have justified his upcoming flight on space shuttle Discovery as a valuable opportunity to learn more about the human aging process, but the mission will more likely be most remembered for the thrill of a 77-year-old pioneer astronaut returning to space after a 36-year absence.