Aviation Week & Space Technology

The French-led project helps to address the increasing demand for small-satellite launch, and the dearth of options for meeting it.

European officials acknowledge the competitive threat a reflyable Falcon 9 may pose, they seem less interested in reusable launchers than in mimicking a more mundane aspect of the SpaceX business model—volume production of a common engine.

NASA's fire-safety experiments on Cygnus could pave the way for future commercial free-flyers to extend space station research.

Washington will always be home to protests, even if most don’t amount to anything.

GE readies for test runs of its new GE9X, which will be the largest turbofan engine ever produced in terms of physical dimensions.

Rolls-Royce is set to begin flight tests of its Trent 1000 TEN engine as it steps up XWB production for the Airbus A350.

Demand outlook remains strong in Asia-Pacific, based on incremental rather than big orders.

Boeing may be moving up the launch of a new midsize aircraft program.

Pipistrel tests hybrid electric; Russia flies tiltrotor UAV; coatings for smoother flying; Airbus in Singapore delivery-UAV trial; structure says where it hurts.

From battery weight and cost to motor cooling and electric arcing, a long list of issues must be tackled to make electric propulsion a reality for large aircraft.

Rolls-Royce Liberty Works and United Technologies Research Center are assessing whether parallel hybrid turbine-electric propulsion could provide fuel and emissions savings in otherwise conventional single-aisle airliners.

The new SS2 will begin captive carriage flight tests beneath the company’s WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft later this year, leading to glide flights and later powered flights using the new motor.

Even though the GAO has sided with the Air Force and its incumbent bomber provider, a contentious atmosphere means we have probably not heard the end of this dispute.

Airliners, without any new equipage, will soon fly as if in domestic airspace over oceans and remote areas using Aireon’s satellite-based surveillance network, unless routes cross into regions that have not signed up.

NATS is using historical data to drive out bottlenecks and increase capacity at British airports.

A small cadre of designers are boosting safe and efficient access to airports around the globe for the growing number of aircraft that have performance-based navigation capability.

California-based nonprofit R&D organization Aerospace Corp. sees it role as becoming fluent in counter-UAS technologies so it can advise its government clients on their effectiveness.

The radar for the GlobalEye is already running, in rooftop tests at Saab’s Gothenburg site, and the first Global 6000 platform for the UAE is due to arrive in Linkoping soon for modifications.

Saab is proposing a maritime patrol aircraft based on the Bombardier Global 6000 business jet that it regards as a competitor to Boeing’s P-8 Poseidon, at perhaps two-thirds the price.

Bombardier hopes to build on Air Canada order for C Series airliner to secure other major customers around the world.

The new president faces the critical challenge of steering Pratt’s production system through the largest ramp-up in its peacetime history.

In an interview with Aviation Week, recently retired Nav Canada CEO John Crichton discusses the ANSP industry and his new role at Aireon.

Experts back idea of carrier-based refueling UAV; McCain presses Obama to stand up to China; U.S. Air Force still working cost growth on GPS ground segment; airlines can apply for flights to Cuba.

“To be honest, we have got a set of partners on [the geared turbofan] already,” says Pratt President Bob Leduc.

Orders, backlogs and airline results are the building blocks of the current wall of worry for equity investors.