Aurora spacecraft. Photo: POLARIS Raumflugzeuge Published by Militarnyi, 2 March 2025 German outlet Hartpunkt reported that Germany’s Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology, and In-Service Support has awarded a contract to develop a reusable, two-stage hypersonic research spacecraft. The project has been entrusted to POLARIS Raumflugzeuge, a German startup that will
Skylon with SABRE engines. Credit: Reaction Engines By Jeff Foust, Published by Space News, 10 November 2024 WASHINGTON — Reaction Engines Ltd., a British company that has worked for decades on an air-breathing rocket engine for spaceplanes and other hypersonic vehicles, has filed for bankruptcy. The company formally entered administration,
By Guardian staff and agencies, Published by The Guardian, 29 December 2023 Launch of plane, which will carry out classified experiments, marks another development in US-China space rivalry The US military’s secretive X-37B robot spaceplane has blasted off from Florida on its seventh mission, the first launched atop a SpaceX
By Brett Tingley, Published by Space.com, 9 November 2023 The X-37B has previously launched atop the smaller Falcon 9 rocket. The U.S. Space Force's shadowy X-37B is set for launch atop a SpaceX rocket. The reusable space plane will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 8 November 2023 The seventh mission of the X-37B, designated USSF-52, is projected to launch Dec. 7 from Kennedy Space Center WASHINGTON — The seventh mission of the reusable U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane is scheduled to launch Dec. 7 on a SpaceX Falcon
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 10 September 2022 Sierra Space signed a cooperative research and development agreement with the U.S. Transportation Command WASHINGTON — Sierra Space CEO Tom Vice has previously hinted about possible military applications for the company’s Dream Chaser space plane. On Sept. 8, Sierra Space announced
By Leonard David, Published by Space.com, 28 June 2022 The X-37B is just a week away from setting a new mission-duration mark. The U.S. military's X-37B robotic space plane is closing in on a mission-duration record. The X-37B launched to Earth orbit on May 17, 2020 on the sixth mission
The terrifying future space weapons – ‘rods from God’ meteorites, molten metal cannons and weaponised asteroids By Patrick Knox, Published by the U.S. Sun, 23 December 2021 WEAPONISED asteroids, "rods from god" raining down on Earth and cannon firing molten metal and — it sounds like something from a sci-fi
