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
An experimental satellite orbited by the National Reconnaissance Office earlier this year is providing groundbreaking evidence of how tethers act in space, and NRO managers are working toward the launch of a follow-on experiment within the next two years. The Tether Physics and Survivability (TiPS) spacecraft was deployed on June 20 and had survived 20 weeks in orbit without snapping as of last week, a tether record.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
Two small science satellites were rendered useless after failing to separate from a Pegasus XL launcher once the air-launched booster had delivered them to their correct orbit. Officials at NASA and Orbital Sciences Corp. said the latest mishap involving the troubled booster appeared to be caused by a malfunction with the third stage's transient power bus, a unit that was supposed to supply a charge to pyrotechnics to jettison the payloads.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
NASA is hoping to greatly increase the scope of a sample-return mission to Mars to help answer questions about possible life on the planet, but the complexity of the effort makes it unlikely that a spacecraft will be returning Martian rocks to Earth for at least a decade.