A SpaceX Starship prototype failed in space on Thursday, minutes after launching from Texas, setting back the company’s speedy rocket development efforts in a mission that was expected to debut a key satellite deployment demonstration.SpaceX’s Starship system, a heavily upgraded version standing...

   The boxy, machine gun equipped vehicle lumbered across the snow covered battlefield, with no crew aboard and marking what its remote Ukrainian operators described as a major milestone as Russian artillery fire rained around it.Sparing soldiers for the infantry assault that came later, the unmanned...

   Irish budget airline Ryanair RYA.I said on Thursday it would cut flights at seven regional airports in Spain this summer due to what it called excessive fees levied by state controlled airport operator Aena AENA.MC .Overall, it will reduce capacity on routes by and cancel some , ...

   Planned Russian military reforms that would increase Moscow’s troop numbers by are a threat to NATO and should be met with vigilance, the chief of Finland’s military intelligence service Pekka Turunen said on Thursday.Finland, which shares the European Union’s longest border with Russia, joined...

   Germany’s Lufthansa Group LHAG.DE is set to resume flights to and from Tel Aviv in Israel from Feb. and Wizz Air restarted its London to Tel Aviv route on Thursday, the companies said following a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.Many Western carriers cancelled flights to swaths of...

   A major Russian gunpowder factory in the Tambov region was attacked, a Ukrainian official said on Thursday, without directly claiming Ukrainian responsibility or specifying the consequences of the attack. The enterprise is one of the main suppliers of explosive materials for the army of the Russian...

   Norway and France have signed a letter of intent to expand and strengthen their defence and security policy cooperation, the Norwegian defence ministry said on Thursday.Norway’s Defence Minister Bjoern Arild Gram and French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu met in Oslo to sign the agreement.The...

   Donald Trump came to Washington eight years ago vowing to rewrite U.S. trade relationships, shrink a massive goods trade deficit and rebuild America’s industrial base with new tariffs.The president elect is about to embark on an even more aggressive effort in his second term, pledging to impose ...

   Concerns about conflict in the Middle East have prompted international airlines to suspend flights to the region, though some are resuming the routes as a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas was announced.Below are some of the airlines that have suspended services to and from the...

   Britain gave the green light to Rocket Factory Augsburg to launch satellites from a site in northern Scotland on Thursday, potentially paving the way for regular commercial space missions from European soil.Following the granting of the licence, German company RFA’s metre tall rocket has...

   Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launched its first New Glenn rocket early Thursday morning from Florida, an inaugural step into Earth’s orbit to rival SpaceX in the satellite launch market. A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket stands ready for its inaugural launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in...

   Azul and Gol GOLL .SA , two of Brazil’s largest airlines, are moving a step closer to a sweeping merger that would create a dominant carrier in Latin America’s No. economy, a securities filing showed on Wednesday.The union of the two companies, which follows months of talks and market...

   Russia launched scores of missiles and drones at Ukraine on Wednesday, targeting gas infrastructure and other energy facilities in western regions in a new barrage against the struggling power system in the depths of winter.President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that the Russian forces launched over ...

   As Los Angeles residents fled an insatiable inferno in Pacific Palisades last week, aerial firefighter Diego Calderoni was plunging towards the flames at about mph kph in a DC jet.Relying on instinct and years of experience, Calderoni pushed his year old jet a plane designed...

   President elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Transportation Department said Boeing lt;BA.A gt; needs tough love to get back on track after a mid air emergency and that electric vehicles should pay to use roads. We have to make sure they are implementing their safety plan. We have...

   The CEO of one of the world’s biggest defense contractors, L Harris Technologies, told President elect Donald Trump’s government efficiency panel in a letter on Wednesday that the Pentagon’s huge contracting system is too slow and bureaucratic to meet threats posed by China and Iran and needs to be...

   The chief executive of Airbus AIR.PA said he was confident the company would reach its target of manufacturing single aisle aircraft a month in , given its investment, focus on its supply chain and the hiring of people ahead of time. By we will be with the capacity rate fully in...

   The U.S. Commerce Department said Wednesday it is imposing new export controls on biotechnology equipment and related technology because of national security concerns tied to artificial intelligence and data science.Washington has raised concerns that China could use U.S. technology to strengthen...

   The European Commission told Lufthansa LHAG.DE on Wednesday it would order the German flag carrier to reinstate charter airline Condor’s access to Lufthansa’s short haul network to feed Condor’s Frankfurt New York route.The expected interim measure is part of the Commission’s investigation into...

   Airbus AIR.PA CEO Guillaume Faury said he could see the two separate European programmes working on new fighter jets and combat air systems being combined in future or at least designed to work together.Britain, Italy and Japan said in December they were setting up a joint company to develop,...

   Brazilian airline Gol GOLL .SA released a revised five year strategic plan on Wednesday as it prepares to exit Chapter bankruptcy proceedings, saying the new forecasts would serve as a base for its reorganization.Gol said in a securities filing it expects to emerge from Chapter in May, and...

   Two moon landers, one from Japan’s ispace .T and another from U.S. space firm Firefly, began their journeys into space on Wednesday with SpaceX’s unusual double moonshot launch, underscoring the global rush to examine the lunar surface.Japanese moon exploration company ispace launched its...

   The CEO of fast growing aircraft lessor AviLease on Wednesday said he expects Boeing BA.N and Airbus AIR.PA to get their supply issues under control in the next four years and said he will be opportunistic about possible aircraft orders.AviLease , backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund...

   Aena AENA.MC , the operator of all Spanish commercial airports, intends to make its terminals in the country carbon neutral in , Chief Executive Maurici Lucena said on Wednesday.The company is investing million euros million in the process, he said during an event held in Madrid. He...

   Funding in the space industry is set to receive a boost this year from growing U.S. China tensions, after startups in the sector clocked . billion in investments in , according to a report by investment firm Seraphim Space.China has been increasing its efforts to go toe to toe with Western...

   Polat Energy said on Wednesday it had signed Turkey’s largest battery energy storage system supply agreement with Rolls Royce, with a capacity of MWh, to increase the storage capacity at the Goktepe wind power plant.The Goktepe plant is located in Yalova in northwestern Turkey. A Rolls...

   President elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Transportation Department will tell a Senate committee on Wednesday he aims to ensure worldwide trust in U.S. planemaker Boeing BA.N after a mid air emergency. I will work with Congress and the FAA to restore global confidence in Boeing and...

   The long time head of the trade group Airlines for America who helped U.S. airlines win billion in federal COVID relief funds will retire at the end of the year.Nick Calio, a former aide to President George W. Bush, has headed the influential airline lobbying group since that includes...

   Deliveries of new Boeing BA.N jets bounced back in December after a crippling labor strike that slowed production last fall, but the company’s annual deliveries dropped in to the lowest level since the COVID pandemic.The company said on Tuesday that it delivered commercial jets last...

   Boeing BA.N expects to reach a balance between supply and market demand for passenger jets by the end of the decade, an executive said on Monday. From my perspective that’s ... about a five year impact in terms of what we need to do ... to get back to balance from the current supply deficit,...