China launched a large missile on Monday that reached 6,200 miles above the earth, its highest suborbital launch since 1976, according to a U.S. scientist at Harvard University. Jonathan McDowell,

Mobile chat apps eat into SMS in China: Person-to-person text messaging is down 11% in a year Traditional SMS text messaging appears to be losing steam in the People’s Republic

BlackBerry on Thursday announced that the US Department of Defense (DoD) has approved the use of BlackBerry 10 smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook tablets with BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10. The approval

INDIA. The name usually brings to mind imagery of a land filled with snake charmers, magic carpets and more recently, characters from the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire. But what most of

The legal and ethical troubles that have enveloped Finmeccanica have, so far, left its electronics businesses largely untouched. That has allowed the company to continue with a major restructuring, formally

Some European aerospace companies are shifting their focus—and staff—to markets where there are more growth opportunities. Saab recently established an Asia-Pacific regional headquarters in Bangkok headed by Dan-Ake Enstedt, who

The galactic project, set to launch in 2017, will be made with local expertise – with 45 UAE experts and engineers leading the development of the satellite, the Emirates Institution

An Estonian software team has invented a program that will allow countries (or private space companies) to keep their satellites from bumping into each other without revealing the location of

President Vladimir Putin told astronauts in orbit on Friday that Russia will send up the first manned flights from its own soil in 2018, using a new launch pad he

The U.S. Air Force will likely opt for a mixed approach for a next-generation weather satellite that includes smaller spacecraft, according to top Air Force officials. The Air Force plans

The U.S. Navy said on Monday it will deploy for the first time a laser weapon on one of its ships that could be capable of shooting down drones and

Japan’s Civil Aviation Bureau said on Friday that preparations are not yet complete for any test flight of Boeing Co’s  grounded 787 Dreamliner this week. “It’s Thursday (in the United