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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JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
Photograph: A Spectrum Astro technician installs components on NASA's Deep Space-1 spacecraft. DS-1 is set to test new spacecraft technologies as it flies by a comet and an asteroid. Spectrum Astro Inc. has grown as a supplier of small satellites to the U.S. Defense Dept. and NASA, taking on a government bureaucracy that was addicted to complex and expensive spacecraft. Now it's planning to test whether its recipe for low-cost satellites and lightning quick design times can be applied successfully on a much larger scale. President W.

Joseph C. Anselmo
Motorola has filed an application with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to use five more geosynchronous slots for its planned Celestri network, adding even more satellites to one of the most expensive commercial spacecraft projects ever proposed. If approved, the application would give Celestri a total of nine geosyncrhonous (GEO) slots to compliment 63 low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, bringing the total price tag of the system to $14.7 billion.

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The U.S. commercial infrastructure is more vulnerable than ever to a nuclear-triggered electronic meltdown, but experts agree the threat of such an attack remains remote. A nuclear detonation in space 250 mi. over the central U.S. could generate an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that could instantaneously short out the unprotected electronics networks across the contiguous 48 states, military analysts say.