The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a PAZ Earth Observation satellite is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB) as seen over the Ventura Pier in Ventura, California, U.S., February 22, 2018. REUTERS/Patrick T. Fallon BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s defens... More »
Relatives of passengers who were believed to have been killed in a plane crash react near the town of Semirom, Iran, February 18, 2017. REUTERS/Tasnim News Agency DUBAI (Reuters) – All 65 passengers and crew were feared dead in a plane crash in central Iran on... More »
FILE PHOTO: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft onboard, launches from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., June 3, 2017. NASA/Bill Ingalls/Handout/Files via REUTERS WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s Spac... More »
South Korean President Moon Jae-in talks with president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of North Korea Kim Young Nam as Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, looks on after North Korea’s Samjiyon Orchestra’s performance... More »
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – The world’s most powerful rocket, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, roared into space through clear blue skies on its debut test flight on Tuesday from a Florida launch site in another milestone for billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s pr... More »
A red Tesla Roadster is seen during preparations to use it as a mock payload for the launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. December 6, 2017. Flickr.com/photos/SpaceX via REUTERS. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – A scarlet Tes... More »
FILE PHOTO: The Boeing logo is seen on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplane in Long Beach, California March 14, 2012. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Boeing may express interest in a jet fighter competition in Canada despite a recent trade ... More »
FILE PHOTO – Workers of planemaker Airbus stand in front of the main entrance during a 24-hour strike of German Metal Workers Union IG Metall in Hamburg-Finkenwerder, Germany, February 2, 2018. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Industrial workers and... More »
FILE PHOTO: Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of North Korea (L), attends the 17th Non-Aligned Summit in Porlamar, Venezuela September 17, 2016. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File photo SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s ceremonial l... More »
A United Parcel Service (UPS) truck on delivery is pictured in downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S., October 29, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Blake/Files SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A recovery in international trade is reviving demand for aircraft once proudly linked to lon... More »
FILE PHOTO: North Korean ferry Mangyongbong 92 arrives at the northern port of Niigata in Japan May 18, 2005. REUTERS/Toshiyuki Aizawa/File photo SEOUL (Reuters) – A North Korean art troupe will likely travel by ship to stage a performance in South Korea for t... More »
An employee wipes a Samsung Electronics’ smartphone at its booth in Pyeongchang, South Korea, February 2, 2018. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji SEOUL (Reuters) – All of the almost 3,000 athletes competing at the upcoming Pyeongchang Winter Olympics are set to get perks in... More »
FILE PHOTO – U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets take part in a joint aerial drill exercise called ‘Vigilant Ace’ between U.S. and South Korea, at the Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, December 6, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – Slovakia’... More »
BMW workers during a 24-hour strike by German industrial trade union IG Metall in Berlin, Germany, February 2, 2018. Placard reads “6% more, we find fair”. REUTERS/Christian Mang FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Car factories across Germany were at a standstill on Friday... More »
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida on Wednesday carrying into orbit a Luxembourg-made communications satellite designed in part to expand NATO’s surveillance reach and its capability to deter cyber attacks on all... More »
MILAN (Reuters) – Italy needs to start thinking of a partnership in the space industry with France after the two countries have joined forces over the naval sector, Industry Minister Carlo Calenda said on Friday. “We now must think of a partnership in the spac... More »
FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech while attending the Forum of Small Towns and Historical Settlements in the town of Kolomna, south of Moscow, Russia January 17, 2018. REUTERS/Alexander Nemenov/Pool MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Presi... More »
The logo of Airbus Group is seen at the Airbus Helicopters Paris-Le Bourget plant dedicated to the production and the renovation of helicopters blades, in Dugny, near Paris, France, December 1, 2017. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier PARIS (Reuters) – Airbus Helicopters ... More »
FILE PHOTO: South Korean President Moon Jae-in delivers a speech during his New Year news conference at the Presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, January 10, 2018. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Monday... More »
Mars fission power system concept in the Kilopower project is shown in this undated NASA handout photo released on January 9, 2018. Courtesy NASA/Handout via REUTERS WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Initial tests in Nevada on a compact nuclear power system designed to s... More »
SEOUL (Reuters) – North and South Korea agreed to hold working talks on Wednesday on the North sending athletes to next month’s Winter Olympics in the South, Seoul’s unification ministry said, as months-long tensions over the North’s weapons programs ease. The... More »
FILE PHOTO: French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire attends a news conference after a meeting about Lactalis baby milk contamination scandal at the Bercy Finance Ministry in Paris, France, January 12, 2018. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes PARIS (Reuters) – French gross... More »
The logo of Airbus is pictured at the company’s headquarters in Colomiers near Toulouse, France, October 19, 2017. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau PARIS (Reuters) – Frenetic selling in the closing weeks of 2017 saw Airbus (AIR.PA) overhaul Boeing’s (BA.N) recent lead i... More »
FILE PHOTO: An Airbus logo is pictured during the delivery of the new Airbus A380 aircraft to Singapore Airlines at the French headquarters of aircraft company Airbus in Colomiers near Toulouse, France, December 13, 2017. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau PARIS (Reuters)... More »
FILE PHOTO: Audi cars are parked in front of the company’s headquarters in Ingolstadt, Germany, March 15, 2017. REUTERS/Lukas Barth HAMBURG (Reuters) – Workers at carmakers Audi (NSUG.DE) and BMW (BMWG.DE) staged further strikes on Friday but German labor lead... More »
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India launched its 100th satellite on Friday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to project the country as a global low-cost provider of services in space. A total of 31 small satellites were launched into space on Friday. More than hal... More »
South Korean President Moon Jae-in delivers a speech during his New Year news conference at the Presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, January 10, 2018. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in credited U.S. President Do... More »
French President Emmanuel Macron attends a news conference at the French Embassy in Beijing, China, January 10, 2018. REUTERS/Charles Platiau BEIJING (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said a contract with China for 184 Airbus A320 narrow-body jets w... More »
French President Emmanuel Macron attends the opening of the first meeting of the French-Chinese business council in Beijing Janaury 9, 2018. REUTERS/Ludovic MARIN/Pool BEIJING (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said a contract with China for 184 Airb... More »
FILE PHOTO – Nelson Peltz founding partner of Trian Fund Management LP. speak at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach, California October 25, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – Billionaire investor Nelson Peltz has a message for Ameri... More »
Elon Musk, founder, CEO and lead designer at SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla, speaks at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition II in Hawthorne, California, U.S., August 27, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake (Reuters) – SpaceX on Tuesday defended the performance of one of ... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. spy satellite that was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a SpaceX rocket on Sunday failed to reach orbit and is assumed to be a total loss, two U.S. officials briefed on the mission said on Monday. The classified intel... More »
FILE PHOTO: A monitoring screen at the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center shows China’s Tiangong (Heavenly Palace) 1 module as seen from the Shenzhou 8 spacecraft after docking on November 3, 2011. REUTERS/CCTV via Reuters TV BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s T... More »
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israel’s Space Communication Ltd, operator of the Amos satellites, said on Tuesday Nepal’s Dish Media Network has contracted for more capacity on the Amos-4 satellite starting in the fourth quarter. The additional capacity will increase Sp... More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Friday it had re-established contact with Angola’s first national telecoms satellite AngoSat-1. The connection had been lost after the satellite launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on Tuesday. “Telemetry information received... More »
FILE PHOTO: The Souyz-2 spacecraft with Meteor-M satellite and 18 additional small satellites launches from Russia’s new Vostochny cosmodrome, near the town of Tsiolkovsky in Amur region, Russia November 28, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremli... More »
The Embraer Phenom 300 is displayed during the Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition fair (LABACE) at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil August 15, 2017. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker PARIS (Reuters) – Boeing Co (BA.N) is eyeing a broad partner... More »
FILE PHOTO: A street sign for Wall Street is seen outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., December 28, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Investors saddled in 2017 with the market’s worst performers, incl... More »
(Reuters) – The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the biggest overhaul of the U.S. tax code in 30 years, sending a sweeping $1.5 trillion bill to President Donald Trump for his signature. The tax plan is designed to kick-start ec... More »
An artist’s impression shows Boom’s 55-seat supersonic aircraft (below) and Boom’s XB-1 supersonic demonstrator in this undated handout obtained by Reuters December 4, 2017. REUTERS/Boom Supersonic Handout via REUTERS (Reuters) – Supersonic passenger travel, w... More »
(Reuters) – A trio of U.S., Japanese and Russian astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday, a NASA TV broadcast showed. Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos and flight engineers Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agenc... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – ArianeGroup, the space-launchers joint-venture between Airbus and Safran, has passed an industrial milestone allowing it to move ahead with production of the first Ariane 6, Europe’s next-generation rocket, the company said on Monday. The fir... More »
MILAN (Reuters) – European shares rose on Monday, with merger and acquisition activity in focus and investor sentiment buoyed by expectations that a U.S. tax bill could soon pass. Thales (TCFP.PA) rose 8.4 percent after the French aerospace and defense company... More »
Patrice Caine, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aerospace and defence group Thales, and Philippe Vallee, Chief Executive Officer of chipmaker Gemalto, shake hands before a news conference in Paris, France, December 18, 2017. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer PAR... More »
A Lockheed Martin F-35B fighter is seen at the Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford, Britain July 8, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls (Reuters) – Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) said that it hit its 2017 target to deliver 66 F-35 fighter jets to the U.S. and it... More »
(Reuters) – A trio of U.S. and Japanese astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut blasted off from Kazakhstan on Sunday for a two-day trip to the International Space Station, a NASA TV broadcast showed. Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos and flight engineers Nor... More »
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday he hoped to make progress with Germany on ideas to reform the euro zone by March, once Germany has a new coalition government in place, and agree a "roadmap" with all eurozone leaders by June next year. More »
FILE PHOTO: A Marine Corps CH-53 Super Stallion lifts off from the USS Kearsarge as U.S. military personnel continue to evacuate the U.S. Virgin Islands in advance of Hurricane Maria, in the Caribbean Sea near the islands September 18, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan D... More »
Airbus Chief Executive Tom Enders attends a ceremony during the delivery of the new Airbus A380 aircraft to Singapore Airlines at the French headquarters of aircraft company Airbus in Colomiers near Toulouse, France, December 13, 2017. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau P... More »
(Reuters) – A capsule carrying U.S., Russian and Italian astronauts from the International Space Station landed in Kazakhstan on Thursday after a five-month mission, a NASA TV live broadcast showed. The spacecraft brought back Randy Bresnik from the U.S. Natio... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Europe launched four more Galileo satellites on Tuesday, taking the number in orbit to 22 and moving a step closer to having its own navigation system, lessening its dependence on the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS. The satellites bl... More »
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a space astronaut toy as he participates in a signing ceremony for Space Policy Directive at the White House in Washington D.C., U.S., December 11, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria WASHINGTON (Reuters) – At a time when China is wor... More »
Japan’s Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera attends a news conference at Defence Ministry in Tokyo, Japan August 8, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan is to acquire medium-range, air-launched cruise missiles, capable of striking North Korea, a cont... More »
The South Korean army’s K-55 self-propelled artillery vehicles take part in a military exercise near the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, South Korea, November 29, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea and the United Stat... More »
A display featuring missiles and a portrait of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seen at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran September 27, 2017. Picture taken September 27, 2017. Nazanin Tabatabaee Yazdi/TIMA via REUTERS BEIRUT (Reuters) – France s... More »
VOSTOCHNY COSMODROME, Russia (Reuters) – Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday it had failed to establish contact with a newly-launched weather satellite. The Meteor-M was launched earlier on Tuesday from Russia’s new Vostochny cosmodrome in the Far E... More »
The building that houses the headquarters of Mitsubishi Materials Corp is seen in Tokyo, Japan, November 24, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai TOKYO (Reuters) – Mitsubishi Materials Corp (5711.T) saw its stock fall as much as 11 percent on Friday after it said three su... More »
Dave Ross, President and CEO of WASINC International, poses beside a recruitment banner in Hong Kong, China November 20, 2017. Picture taken November 20, 2017. REUTERS/Bobby Yip SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Chinese airlines are circling disaffected pilots at... More »
A flag is pictured outside the Permanent Mission of North Korea in Geneva, Switzerland, November 17, 2017. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea may conduct additional missile tests this year to polish up its long-range missile technology and r... More »
FILE PHOTO: Boeing’s logo is seen during Japan Aerospace 2016 air show in Tokyo, Japan, October 12, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo HONG KONG/PARIS (Reuters) – Chinese-owned aircraft leasing company Avolon has firmed up an order for 75 Boeing (BA.N) ai... More »
An Airbus A380, the world’s largest jetliner, takes part in flying display, during the 52nd Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport near Paris, France June 25, 2017. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol DUBAI (Reuters) – A preliminary deal to sell 36 A380s to Emirates blew u... More »
FILE PHOTO – The ticker and logo for General Electric Co. is displayed on a screen at the post where it’s traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., June 30, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – ... More »
Emirates [EMIRA.UL] believes Airbus (AIR.PA) can meet demands from the airline's owner, the Dubai government, for the European planemaker to guarantee development of the superjumbo A380 program. More »
Emirates [EMIRA.UL] has the flexibility to order more Boeing (BA.N) 787s under the same commercial terms as its deal announced on Sunday, the airline's president Tim Clark said on Tuesday. More »
General Electric Co's (GE.N) new Chief Executive John Flannery on Monday outlined steps that will turn the biggest U.S. industrial conglomerate into a smaller, more focused company, surprising some investors who sold the company's shares to a five-year low. More »
Rising Middle East tensions and a corruption crackdown in Saudi Arabia will cast a shadow over next week's Dubai Airshow, as military and aerospace leaders try to gauge whether they might prolong a weapons-buying spree in the region. More »
NATO buyer nations for the European A400M military transport plane have postponed a ministerial meeting on the troubled program for three months until February, said two sources familiar with the 20 billion euro project. More »
A U.S. Republican tax bill unveiled on Thursday offers big multinational companies more benefits than minuses, and could free up extra cash for investments, dividends or improving balance sheets. More »
South Korea's foreign ministry said Lee Do-hoon, its representative for six-party nuclear talks, and his Chinese counterpart, Kong Xuanyou, will meet in Beijing on Tuesday. More »
A flood of low-cost Chinese funding is shaking up the global aircraft leasing market, with Chinese capital now accounting for 28 percent of the $261 billion deployed by leasing firms worldwide, a study suggested on Monday. More »
General Electric Co (GE.N) executives did not tell the multinational conglomerate's board until October about a spare business jet that routinely flew for its now-retired chief executive, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with ... More »
U.S. President Donald Trump intends to nominate Michael Griffin, a former administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as principal deputy undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics, the White House said on Frid... More »
North Korea said it will release a South Korean fishing boat on Friday after it was found illegally in North Korean waters, state media reported, as the U.S. defense secretary visited the heavily militarized border dividing the Korean peninsula. More »
Apple Inc and General Electric Co released app-making tools on Thursday tailored to GE's Predix platform for connecting power plants, jet engines and other industrial equipment to the internet. More »
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis flew into Seoul on Friday for annual defense talks as tensions with North Korea climb ahead of a visit to the region next month by President Donald Trump. More »
The earth is a fragile thing that could even destroy itself, Pope Francis told astronauts on the International Space Station on Thursday, saying they had an opportunity to see the planet "from the eyes of God". More »
The earth is a fragile thing that could even destroy itself, Pope Francis told astronauts on the International Space Station on Thursday, saying they had an opportunity to see the planet "from the eyes of God". More »
The earth is a fragile thing that could even destroy itself, Pope Francis told astronauts on the International Space Station on Thursday, saying they had an opportunity to see the planet "from the eyes of God". More »
The earth is a fragile thing that could even destroy itself, Pope Francis told astronauts on the International Space Station on Thursday, saying they had an opportunity to see the planet "from the eyes of God". More »
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund plans to invest about $1 billion in Richard Branson's space company, Virgin Galactic, and sister companies The Spaceship Company and Virgin Orbit, according to a joint statement published on Thursday. More »
European shares were flat on Monday with banks weighing and Madrid's bourse lagging its peers as Catalonia's political crisis deepened. More »
Boeing Co and Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) announced they have agreed on steps to reduce the cost of producing the wings of the 787 Dreamliner. More »
Boeing Co said on Thursday it invested in Near Earth Autonomy, a Pittsburgh-based firm that develops technologies enabling autonomous flight such as drones. More »
Israel's Space Communications has signed a deal with Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch two communication satellites into orbit, after a prior attempt ended in disaster. More »
Airbus SE has agreed to buy a majority stake in Bombardier Inc's CSeries jetliner program, giving a powerful boost to the Canadian plane and train maker in its costly trade dispute with Boeing Co. More »
Two years ago, Airbus Chief Executive Tom Enders halted negotiations to buy Canada's CSeries program at midnight after the talks with Bombardier leaked to Reuters. On Tuesday, he performed a U-turn by backing a similar deal after all - again at dead of night. More »
The French government, which owns an 11 percent stake in Airbus, welcomes the airplane maker's deal for a majority stake in Bombardier's CSeries jet program, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday. More »
Airbus shares rose on Tuesday after the European planemaker and aerospace group agreed to buy a majority stake in Bombardier's CSeries jetliner program. More »
Cyber-security firm BAE Systems Plc said on Monday it believes the North Korean Lazarus hacking group is likely responsible for a recent cyber heist in Taiwan, the latest in a string of hacks targeting the global SWIFT messaging system. More »
Europe launched the sixth of its Sentinel Earth observation satellites on Friday as part of the multi-billion-euro Copernicus program to monitor volcanic ash and ultraviolet radiation. More »
Boeing Co (BA.N), the world's biggest maker of passenger jets, has used Kobe Steel (5406.T) products that include those falsely certified by the Japanese company, a source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. More »
Crisis-hit Kobe Steel Ltd (5406.T) said on Friday its steel division has also falsely labeled products, the latest in a string of revelations confirming widespread cheating at the firm that has engulfed its global customers. More »
The revelation that Japan's third-biggest steelmaker Kobe Steel Ltd (5406.T) fabricated data for some of its aluminum and copper and other products has left affected manufacturers scrambling to pin down the potential impact. More »
Europe's Airbus does not buy products directly from Japan's Kobe Steel but is investigating whether any of its suppliers have been affected by a cheating scandal at the Japanese group, an Airbus spokesman said. More »
South Korea's trade minister Kim Hyun-chong said on Friday the United States may demand that Seoul guarantees it will step up arms purchases and imports of U.S. shale gas if the two countries renegotiate a free trade agreement. More »
An asteroid the size of a school bus flew remarkably near Earth on Thursday, providing scientists with an opportunity to test the warning systems that would kick in if a space collision was coming. More »
Japan on Tuesday launched a fourth satellite for a new high-precision global positioning system (GPS) it hopes will encourage new businesses and help spur economic growth. More »
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The promotion of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's 28-year-old sister to the country's top decision-making body is a sign he is strengthening his position by drawing his most important people closer to the center of power, experts and officials say. More »
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un said his nuclear weapons were a "powerful deterrent" that guaranteed its sovereignty, state media reported on Sunday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said "only one thing will work" in dealing with the isolated country. More »
