Aviation Week & Space Technology

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A former NASA extravehicular system manager for the ISS, Moses discusses her recent suborbital ride aboard SpaceShipTwo for the first inflight assessment of the passenger cabin.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

The Airpower Teaming System is a fighter-like unmanned aircraft specifically designed to be exportable globally.

Although Boeing has similar objectives for the Airpower Teaming System unveiled in Australia, the XQ-58A is designed with a very different philosophy.

Readers discuss merits of bio-fuel; 'dynamic skylines' for drones; Mach cut off; and praise the late George Muellner and philanthropic pilot community.

Eight years after shuttle flights ended, SpaceX Dragon 2 capsule reaches space station for test run, ushering in “new era in space.”

Recent appointments, promotions and honors in the aviation and aerospace industry.

Aviation Week and the AIAA honor these exceptional aerospace students for their academic accomplishments and extracurricular activities.

As SH09 certification approaches, Kopter lays out industrialization plan.

MD Helicopters will fight for FARA contract; India’s milsat plans; Israel’s customized F-35 upgrades, and the end of the line for U.S. Marine Corps Prowlers.

Airliner retirements were reduced greatly in 2018; new analyst reports suggest the upsides/downsides from fewer aircraft parked in desert holding stations.

Has Airbus really lived up to its potential? And is the group healthy enough today to guarantee that it will still be around 50 years from now?

Having won an Australian armed-drone competition, General Atomics urges the customer to buy the latest MQ-9 version.

Despite cancellation of Google X Prize, Israeli nonprofit aiming for April touchdown on the Moon.

Other European governments will monitor closely what is happening at Air France-KLM, and consider their own options next time the local airline is in trouble.

Intended to reduce pilot workload and optimize operations, GE’s Connected FMS will extends the flexibility of EFBs

Matrix technology will enable more automation in the cockpit for offshore and SAR missions.

The RAAF’s combat aircraft commander expected trouble in making F-35s operational. He has been pleasantly surprised.

Airbus CEO Tom Enders says the key challenges of the next 25 years will be fundamentally different from those of the last several decades.

The concept would allow Air Force leaders to hedge against the risk of future technology breakthroughs and surprise enemies with unexpected new capabilities.

Europe’s supersonic split; Wing advances UTM; Safran hybrid-electric plans; Printing aircraft liveries

Rolls-Royce’s decision to pull the UltraFan from the NMA competition may be a good move by the UK engine-maker, but what happens now?

Aviation Week flies Sikorsky’s autonomous S-76 testbed as the company reveals its interest in the urban air mobility market.

DARPA’s original late-1970s Assault Breaker sought to counter possibility of overwhelming waves of Soviet armored forces rampaging across Western Europe.