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During its secretive mission, the X-37B will test new laser communications gear and a "quantum" navigation sensor.
Stratolaunch has finally found a use for the world’s largest airplane. Twice in the past five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated it to more than five ...
Welcome to Edition 6.07 of the Rocket Report! I spent a few days last week in southern New Mexico, visiting Spaceport America and Virgin Galactic's facilities there. I felt a renewed sense of optimism ...
Dawn Aerospace’s rocket-powered aircraft soared to new heights in its latest test campaign, as the company looks to build what could be the highest-performance aircraft to take off from a runway. The ...
Live updates from USSF-36 mission, which launched at 11:50 p.m. Aug. 21 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A.
The rebirth of commercial supersonic flight has kind of, sort of come to pass as Dawn Aerospace announces that its 16-ft (4.8-m) Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft broke the sound barrier with a ...
Dawn Aerospace received approval from New Zealand's Civil Aviation Authority to operate its rocket-powered aircraft, the Mk-II Aurora, at supersonic speeds and beyond visual line of sight. The Aurora, ...
The film discusses the X15 rocket-powered research airplane, which was piloted by test pilots for nine years, completing 199 flights that explored the edges of space. Notably, it highlights the unique ...
And Charles Lindbergh’s famed Spirit of St. Louis, the plane he flew on the first solo trans-Atlantic flight to Europe serves as a centerpiece alongside Amelia Earhart’s bright-red Lockheed 5B Vega ...
The air-to-air optimized variant of the APKWS rocket is being assessed as an option for the Eurofighter Typhoon as concerns ...
The space exploration business is booming in our day and age, and that is owed, not it small part, to the countless startups that provide transportation to space for all those who need it. But whereas ...
SpaceX shared four stunning photos of its Falcon 9 rocket carrying the U.S. Space Force's secretive X-37B space plane into ...