Rocket-powered aircraft

“The rocket terminated the flight after judging that the achievement of its mission would be difficult”

To squeeze a bit more performance out of rocket engines, NASA is looking at a fundamentally different design with the RDRE

A spokesperson told Chinese media that the winged rocket will have lower operational costs than “rockets carrying satellites & be faster than a traditional aircraft”

A delta-shaped tailless fighter-sized aircraft that looks like nothing we’ve seen before calls the secretive base home

Rocket appears to tumble out of control minutes after launch

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space plane has conducted the first of three key test flights that should enable it to enter commercial service.

The Unity vehicle, with pilots Dave Mackay and CJ Sturckow at the controls, powered to a height of 89km (55 miles), and then glided back down to Earth.

The US Air Force has successfully launched its Atlas V rocket, carrying a X-37B space plane for a secretive mission.

The rocket launched on Sunday from Cape Canaveral, a day after bad weather halted plans for a Saturday launch.

The aircraft, also known as an Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), will deploy a satellite into orbit and also test power-beaming technology.

DARPA’s ambitious launch-a-day spaceplane is a step closer to lift off after Boeing announced that it’s been assigned the contract to work with the agency to design, build and test a technology demonstration vehicle for the Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program.

The U.S. military’s experimental X-37B space plane landed on Sunday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing a classified mission that lasted nearly two years, the Air Force said.

Swiss Space Systems (S3) said it has inaugurated a subsidiary in Croatia as part of its expansion in Europe.

Zagreb-based Swiss Space Systems Croatia will play an important role in different parts of the S3 program, S3 said in a statement.

The first activities of S3 Croatia will be the ZeroG flights, to take place in Croatia in the first half of next year.