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Rocket plane could travel to space twice a day from Cornwall under new plan

It takes off and lands on a conventional runway and is designed for rapid turnaround ...
Wired

This US Company Just Successfully Tested a Reusable Hypersonic Rocket Plane

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 ...
Ars Technica

For Virgin Galactic, becoming profitable means a pause in flying to space

Last year, Virgin Galactic seemed to finally be hitting a stride toward making commercial suborbital spaceflight. The company flew its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane to the edge of space six times in six ...
The Aviationist

Stratolaunch’s Boeing 747 Spotted With Previously Unseen Rocket Under Its Wings

Stratolaunch’s Boeing 747-400 carrier aircraft was recently spotted in Mojave carrying a previously unseen rocket under its ...
GeekWire

Radian Aerospace completes its first round of ground testing for prototype space plane

Radian Aerospace’s subscale prototype for its Radian One space plane sits on a runway in the United Arab Emirates. (Radian Aerospace Photo) Seattle-based Radian Aerospace has finished the first round ...