Aerospace & Defense

With space entrepreneurs proposing to launch unprecedented numbers of communication and imaging satellites over the next decade, U.S. government officials are looking for ways to prevent collisions and other hazards in orbit.

Space Exploration Technologies said it aims to resume Falcon 9 launches as early as November from an alternate pad, after a rocket explosion during ground tests two weeks ago caused what the Air Force calls “moderate damage” to its launch site.

The EU is crafting proposals for stepped-up defense cooperation that could eventually lead to the creation of a small crisis-response force to react—without American help—to a range of security challenges.

Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte signaled an abrupt departure from his nation’s military reliance on the U.S., ordering his defense secretary to seek gear from suppliers in China and Russia to fight drug traffickers and insurgents.

Europe’s largest satellite-services provider and the region’s leading aircraft-electronics maker are teaming up to offer enhanced broadband-via-satellite connections to airline passengers. France’s Thales and Luxembourg-based SES will announce the initiative on Monday.

The rogue regime will soon have an arsenal that can hit Chicago.

More than a week after a SpaceX rocket blew up during fueling, Elon Musk suggested investigators haven’t identified the likely cause and requested assistance from the public.

North Korea’s latest nuclear test appears part of a new effort by Pyongyang to create fear it has momentum to overcome a U.S. missile-defense system planned for South Korea.

The test, coming hours after Barack Obama wrapped up his last trip to Asia, signaled a challenge for the U.S. leader’s successor.

The investigation of a Falcon 9 rocket that exploded during ground tests last week highlights the primacy of industry self-regulation when commercial space operations run into trouble.

Daimler said it would team up with U.S. drone startup Matternet to develop drones for its delivery vans and invest about $560 million over the next five years in designing electric, networked vans.

Canadian plane and train maker Bombardier Inc. on Tuesday cut its 2016 delivery guidance for its new CSeries aircraft by more than half, citing engine delivery delays by supplier Pratt & Whitney.

General Electric Co. is pushing further into 3-D printing, spending $1.4 billion for a pair of small European firms to expand its ability to make aircraft components and other parts with the new manufacturing technique.

Space startup LeoSat Enterprise said it has secured its first customer for a proposed new satellite constellation promising high-speed traders and others a quicker way to complete transactions.

The explosion of the SpaceX rocket during tests has added urgency to a key question for NASA: When will U.S. spacecraft be ready once again to carry astronauts into orbit?

North Korea fired three ballistic missiles into the sea, hours after South Korea’s president pleaded unsuccessfully with China’s leader to drop his opposition to Seoul’s plan for a U.S. missile defense shield.

Rocket Internet, the German tech company that made a business out of cloning Web startups, said that losses in the first half of 2016 drastically widened because of write-downs of its portfolio companies.

Deteriorating sentiment towards early-stage tech companies has punished the German e-commerce incubator--whatever the valuation fundamentals.