By Jan Tegler
June 1, 2021
The U.S. Defense Department’s process for updating weapon software is notoriously ponderous, and this threatens to put the country at a disadvantage, if it hasn’t already. What if updates could be developed and dispatched almost continuously to all forces, perhaps even to aircraft in flight? Jan Tegler interviewed the man who wants to make it a reality.
By Cat Hofacker
July 1, 2019
By Amanda Miller
October 31, 2018
Spacecraft in deep space must exchange signals with ground stations so that their owners know where they are. That approach is not going to work if humanity sends swarms of spacecraft to the moon.
July 1, 2018
A digital transformation is underway in the aerospace industry toward blockchain information technology, a secure method of storing and sharing high volumes of data. Companies that want to compete effectively in a transformed industry should embrace the technology quickly but in a systematic way. Blockchain researcher and contractor Sam Adhikari explains.
By Debra Werner
May 31, 2018
Arwa Aweiss, 38, flight test director for NASA’s Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management Project, Ames Research Center
By Tom Risen
March 30, 2018
Michael Benson chronicles the making of the Oscar-winning film 50 years later
March 30, 2018
NASA’s latest rover is in assembly at the Jet Propulsion Lab
By Debra Werner
January 2, 2018
David Coote, 33 Senior Systems Engineer at BAE Systems
By Debra Werner
May 1, 2017
Lindsey Sweeney, junior chief engineer, Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton
By Debra Werner
March 6, 2017
November 22, 2016
GOES-R weather-data volume drives NOAA network
By Debra Werner
November 22, 2016
Momentum builds to give FAA control of space traffic
November 22, 2016
Infrared cameras provide better vision
