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In January 1958, after initial failures with Vanguard and U.S.S.R. success with Sputnik, the U.S. made it into orbit.

Sweden’s Inkonova has built a drone designed to fly in places humans cannot get to—today it’s caves, tomorrow it could be asteroids.

Korean Air is adding Bombardier CS300s to its narrowbody fleet, and retiring more Boeing 747-400 passenger and freighter aircraft as new widebodies arrive.

Global Eagle aims to launch a Ka-band satellite-based inflight connectivity service to complement its Airconnect Ku service, regrouping after recent travails.

The upcoming test of U.S./Japan Standard Missile-3 Block 2A will round out the development phase ahead of operational deployment later this year.

This industry has its share of challenges, and we will continue to doggedly cover them. But I am confident that the best is yet to come.

What’s next for the commercial aviation and airline industry? And what’s the fallout of Boeing’s latest trade dispute? Listen in as analyst Richard Aboulafia talks to Aviation Week and ATW editors about the current state of affairs.

Structural testing of a critical element of Aurora’s D8 concept composite “double-bubble” fuselage shows the unique Y-joint design has the required strength.

United and other U.S. airlines try to convince investors growth will not trigger damaging fare wars.

Preliminary fiscal 2019 spending plan also aims to end direct funding of space station in 2025.

The agencies are negotiating a memorandum to accommodate noncompliant military aircraft, but security issues are unresolved.

An F-35 pilot speaks out on the physiological events that led to the fleet's grounding at Luke AFB, Arizona, in 2017.

What do aerospace and defense companies need to think of now as artificial intelligence spreads across the industry in earnest?

As digital developments in the wider world change passenger expectations of travel, airlines are looking for ways to set themselves apart.

Folding wings in flight; China’s hypersonic biplane; X-57 motor progress; Europe’s radical thinking; Vahana eVTOL slips.

Airbus and Bombardier say their C Series plans, including an assembly line in Mobile, Alabama, for U.S. customers will continue, despite end of tariff threat.

Quadrotor, helicopter and tiltwing designs will help steer NASA research toward key technology challenge areas for future urban air transport systems.

The pilot, who requested anonymity to protect his privacy, immediately recognized the early symptoms of hypoxia he’d experienced during training in the altitude chamber.

Satellite providers are hosting new satellites and adding high-throughput capacity to existing networks to better position themselves for airlines’ inflight-connectivity needs.

The draft Nuclear Posture Review would lower the bar for a nuclear first strike and seeks to add new types of weapons to the U.S. arsenal.

Marines are used to getting people to move faster. Now a Marine is ordering the aerospace sector to do just that, and it would behoove industry to snap to it.

Speed matters on this week’s podcast as technical editor Graham Warwick talks to senior editor Guy Norris about his story on Boeing’s reusable hypersonic demonstrator concept and the rapidly evolving developments in hypersonics over the past year since he broke the story about the U.S. losing its lead in this increasingly important area of defense technology.

Super Puma replacement may be rescoped for multirole mission as commercial market tumbles.

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Emirates new order “underscores Airbus’ commitment to produce the A380 at least for another 10 years,” says departing sales chief John Leahy.