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If you have not signed up to receive your digital subscription, go to AviationWeek.com/awstcustomers DEPARTMENTS 10 Feedback 11 Who’s Where 12-13 The World 14 Up Front 15 Commander’s Intent 16 Inside Business Aviation 17 Airline Intel 18 In Orbit 19 Washington Outlook 51 Classified 52 Contact Us 53 Aerospace Calendar THE WORLD The call to lasso an asteroid provides NASA planners with capabilities to find and deflect asteroids that may threaten Earth. Tethers Unlimited’s 12 Realities of FAA regulations on use ‘Wrangler’ concept system would employ a net capture device and a tether of UAVs may cut into Amazon’s 48 deployer/winch mechanism to catch and stabilize an asteroid. plan for nearby home deliveries SPACE 46 Market for launching smallsats 12 Appointment of new Bombardier 28 Panel of scientists: Draft NASA is projected to exceed 150 sales chief linked to ineffective strategic plan fails to tackle the spacecraft per year by 2020 strategy, sluggish orders for CSeries agency’s uncertain funding outlook 46 Recent launches of converted balli- 13 Aviation Week editor honored in three stic missiles reaffirm vehicles’ pre- categories at Australia and New 29 Blue Origin to begin unmanned Zealand Aviation Media Awards orbital flight tests of its biconic- ence in market for lofting smallsats shape human capsule in 2018 48 Asteroid lasso UNMANNED SYSTEMS provides asteroid 42 Upper-stage restart failure reveals mission planners with momen- 20 New large, classified unmanned air- details about how SpaceX’s path to tum for deep-space exploration craft shows major advance in join- certification differs from rival’s ing stealth, aerodynamic efficiency 50 Startup company envisions com- mercial high-altitude balloon ex- 22 Secret stealth UAS must be seen 43 United Launch Alliance to expand its perience for passengers, researchers in the context of previous ISR industrial base beyond the number programs, manned and unmanned of rocket orders from the Pentagon ASIAN TENSIONS 26 Aerospace manufacturers pressur- 44 Funding uncertainty seen as main 31 Suspicious of the outside world, ing governments to develop a pan- hurdle to development of NASA’s China will keep trying to assert its European approach to MALE UAV Space Launch System rocket rights with air defense zone ON THE COVER 31 China is using air defense 20 This week, Aviation Week publishes two editions. On the covers identification zone as part of its of both is a U.S. Air Force unmanned aircraft capable of penetrating strategy to tighten control over the most advanced air defenses (page 20). We collaborated with maritime approaches. artist Ronnie Olsthoorn (www.aviationart.aero) to create this conceptual illustration of the RQ-180 based on government and industry information, public documents and basic design principles. Both editions include reports on the wrangling over EU emissions 29 Human spaceflight firm trading (page 39), China’s claim to new airspace (page 31) and the Blue Origin to use orbital launch Blue Origin commercial space effort (page 29). 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