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Certifying the Future: Why America Needs a More Predictable Path for Emerging Aviation Technologies
1+ hour, 46+ min ago (398+ words) The challenge is not a lack of innovation. Rather, the challenge is ensuring that America's certification system can efficiently evaluate increasingly novel aircraft and enabling technologies while preserving the world's safest aviation system. Aircraft certification is among the most rigorous…...
If you build it, they will soar
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (425+ words) From the moment 13-year-old Marty Lenss set foot in an airport, it was love at first flight. "That experience lit the fuse," he said. Marty and the team at CID represent just some of the many Iowa-based aerospace and defense…...
Book Spotlight: Lethal Autonomy, NASA in 100 Objects, and The Spaceflight Narrative
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (294+ words) Titles are meant to reflect a broad range of topics and are not reviewed or endorsed by Aerospace America or AIAA." Releasing July 7, 2026 (Knox Press) Former U. S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall describes "how lethal autonomous platforms will transform warfare," according…...
July-September 2026 crossword answers
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (55+ words) Aerospace America Stay Up to Date Submit your email address to receive the latest industry and Aerospace America news. July-September 2026 crossword answers Want to keep reading? email protected | 703-264-7500 or 1-800-639-2422 Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel....
Inside the space data race
3+ day, 3+ min ago (1752+ words) What if the next time you sent a question to Open AI's Chat GPT or Google's Gemini, the answer didn't come from microchips inside a massive building somewhere on Earth, but rather from ones housed within thousands of orbiting satellites?...
Space Force's proposed budget increase would largely go to existing programs, official says
21+ hour, 35+ min ago (218+ words) The majority of the increased funding the Pentagon is requesting for the U. S. Space Force for fiscal year 2027 would be directed "into existing programs," according to Melissa Blakesly, an Air Force official working on the budget process. The Pentagon has requested…...
Should the ISS be extended beyond 2030?
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (1440+ words) I asked lawmakers, researchers and a former astronaut whether ISS operations should be extended. NASA declined to provide a response, citing the pending legislation. Maybe. If extending the station becomes necessary to avoid a gap in low-Earth orbit, that's something…...
NASA's habitable planet seeker comes into view
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1513+ words) What is it seeking? An answer to one of the biggest questions about what's beyond our solar system. "Are we alone?' is the most ambitious question that has really ever been addressed by any mission, and an observatory capable of…...
Spacecraft without gas tanks
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (711+ words) In the coming months, a cubesat is slated to arrive at the International Space Station equipped with a novel kind of thruster: Unlike today's liquid- or gas-propelled designs that require fuel tanks, it will rely on plasma. Jiva Jet's solution…...
Farah Diya Yasmine, House of Representatives for the Republic of Indonesia
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (252+ words) Biotechnology, as it could support us and other living creatures to adapt in microgravity or excel in research that could not be conducted on Earth due to distinct environments. It feels like taking a science fiction movie closer to reality....