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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Photograph: Constellation Communications plans to orbit 12 Ecco spacecraft as the first segment of a 54-satellite global system. Matra Marconi Space is expected to build the spacecraft. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has given the go-ahead to two more ventures that plan international mobile telephone services via small satellites in nongeosynchronous orbits. Constellation Communications Inc. and Mobile Communications Holdings Inc.

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Photograph: Scientists were hoping to capture images as detailed as 200 meters in resolution when Near whizzed by asteroid 253 Mathilde late last week. NASA's Discovery program, aimed at exploring the solar system with low-cost spacecraft, is set to yield its first science with a flyby imaging of an asteroid and a landing on Mars within a week. The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (Near) spacecraft was slated to fly within 750 mi. (1,200 km.) of the main belt asteroid 253 Mathilde on June 27, the closest approach a spacecraft has ever made to an asteroid.

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Motorola, which lost out to Boeing for the prime contract to build the 288-satellite Teledesic system, has unveiled an ambitious plan to build a satellite network that would compete directly with Teledesic. The Celestri system would offer high-speed data and video transmissions, including Internet connections, anywhere on the globe via 63 low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites and at least one spacecraft in geosynchronous orbit.