Driving down the costs of electronically steered phased arrays opens up new commercial and military opportunities.

During a March 17 luncheon Shotwell touched on developments underway at the Hawthorne, California-based company.

Aviation Week editors discuss how private sector money and technological advances are revolutionizing space telecom.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr., a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, presented Aviation Week’s Tomorrow’s Leaders Award to students of four U.S. military services academies who have demonstrated overall excellence as well as a keen interest in pursuing various careers in aerospace.

Snowstorm shuts down Washington but fails to halt Aviation Week’s 58th annual Laureate awards ceremony, which salutes aerospace sector’s high achievers.

The European Space Agency was awarded Aviation Week’s 2015 Space Laureate for getting up close and personal with a comet—landing a robotic space probe on its surface and gleaning a wealth of information.

David W. Thompson and a pair of classmates from Harvard Business School launched Orbital Sciences Corp. in 1982 to, as they put it, ‘bring the benefits of space down to Earth.’ The company, with Thompson still at the helm, continues to innovate and expand its vision.

Seeing a potentially major new market, rocket and spacecraft builders are positioning themselves to appeal to designers of small satellite constellations.