Aviation Week & Space Technology

What the space-launch upstart thinks went wrong in September, what the delay means for its customers and how the company has handled losses in the past. Plus, Orbital ATK’s Pegasus launch and a John Glenn remembrance.

In this week’s Washington Outlook: Sessions urges more peaceful relations with Russia, American Airlines faces tarmac delay fines and Warren joins the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Former Indian air force chief faces charges related to the AW101 helicopter scandal; the Philippines builds a fleet of FA-50 fighters; Lithuania beefs up surface-to-air missile force; and the U.S. State Department reviews munition sales to Saudi Arabia.

The Boeing E-3 Sentry’s 1970s-vintage cockpit gets a facelift to enable free access to international airspace and reduce the aircrew required on the flight deck.

Soyuz maybe nudged out of many launches due to the increased payload capability of the Vega C.

Germany gives Sea Lion room to succeed as it mulls other helicopter acquisitions.

Israel is showing the aviation industry a new use for noise-reducing and efficiency-boosting performance-based navigation procedures: avoiding the rocket’s red glare.

It is looking like, under Trump, U.S. workers increasingly will have to compete with both foreign labor and robots at home.

Although the size of the aerostructure suppliers’ pie to be shared is increasing, competition for a slice is growing.

The Sept. 1 launch-pad explosion, among other problems, is putting a crimp, for now, in the big plans for Elon Musk’s "new space" company.

Supply-chain companies face a growth dilemma many have not encountered in recent memory, if at all.

Jan Woerner’s Moon village concept is looking better to NASA, and the Trump administration could move things along faster.

Sens. Cochran and Wicker lend Republican clout to the company’s low-risk entry for the U.S. Air Force T-X trainer competition under a Trump presidency.

Airbus’s Silicon Valley outpost is developing a modular cabin for widebody freighter aircraft that will provide new types of passenger experience that can generate additional revenue for airlines while making it quicker and easier to change cabins, even between flights.

London’s busy and complex airspace is a key target for redesign.

A new thermodynamic cycle could produce a lightweight, fuel-efficient heavy-fuel engine for unmanned aircraft.

IATA’s first look into 2017 is sobering, given that the airline industry has only recently been able to reach margins common in many other sectors.

Extra sets electrifying record; transforming UAV launched; DARPA wants swarm tactics; NASA steers sonic booms; hydrogen filling stations for UAVs.

Aerojet Rocketdyne rotating detonation-engine study takes a big step toward boosting gas turbine efficiency through pressure-gain combustion.

Airbus’s C295W triumphs in Canada over Leonardo C-27J and Embraer KC-390 in the fixed-wing SAR competition.

After Donald Trump’s surprise election as president, the top aerospace trade group has a lot to do.

Drawing up a concept that emphasizes weapon load and endurance over maneuverability, designers at the Japanese defense ministry have come up with an aircraft that is longer than the F-22 and has a considerably greater wingspan.

USAF is “aggressively” pursuing a long-range, stealthy unmanned surveillance aircraft to go places its high-altitude Lockheed Martin U-2S and Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk cannot.

America’s aerospace trade association said it is preparing for a “challenging” policy arena in both Washington and around the world.

In an environment where a Tweet can move markets, the head of the Aerospace Industries Association is urging companies to stick to the facts.