Aviation Week & Space Technology

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

Readers write about the A380, burning hydrogen, the James Webb Space Telescope, inspiring aviation students and space stations.

You don’t have to work in aerospace to be a winner of Aviation Week’s Photo Contest, but it helps.

Listen in as Aviation Week editors unpack the complicated set of problems that have beset the revolutionary aircraft program.

Spacecraft will collide with asteroid in hopes of learning how to deflect threats to Earth.

The four-nation Eurodrone has been designed to allow capability growth as nations eye new missions for the MALE UAS.

Program is likely to total 14 deliveries in 2021 with no sign of when handovers will resume.

With China and Russia demonstrating dangerous new technologies, the U.S. must invest only in solutions that can outpace the threat.

Chinese show of force near Taiwan; LaPlante to lead Pentagon acquisitions; SOCOM orders 6 Chinooks; and the U.S. finishes posture review.

As Etihad adopts Satavia’s tool to explore mitigation techniques, ways to prevent contrail formation appear achievable.

Volocopter co-founder Thomas Senkel links two eVTOLs a decade apart.

DRDO Chairman G. Satheesh Reddy says the nation has a road map to boost weapon sales dramatically in five years.

Heart picks Aernnova; DLR’s hybrid SynergIE; Smooth-flying Celera; Skydweller and Telefonica; Renault’s flying 4.

New government’s platform calls for continued air, maritime surveillance investments.

The airport’s revised passenger flow impedes travelers from doing what they have come to the airport to do.

More low-cost carriers are reactivating widebodies, as new operators and routes appear.

In the wake of the COP26 Climate conference Aviation Week editors talk to leaders of FlyZero, a UK government-backed Aerospace Technology Institute project targeting zero-carbon emission commercial aviation by 2030.

Timm discusses Collins' strategic investments and its role as a middleman between the Pentagon and Silicon Valley.

Calidus previews new pursuit of a heavy surveillance aircraft follow-up to Bader 250 light-attack fighter.

American and United airlines have bet on startups promising aviation fuels with low to negative carbon intensity.

The Russian Navy comprises four fleets operating in the Atlantic, Arctic and Pacific oceans as well as the Baltic, Black and Caspian seas.

ATR moves to upgraded powerplant as Embraer turboprop talks continue.

Jetliner manufacturing is bedeviled by shortages of skilled labor and microchips as well as reduced parts-manufacturing capacity.

Airbus Defense and Space CEO Michael Schoellhorn discusses the company’s upcoming major European programs.

Resolving the A400M’s issues is particularly important for the UK as it prepares to retire the C-130J Hercules.