SpinLaunch's suborbital accelerator at Spaceport America fired its first projectile in an Oct. 22 test. Credit: SpinLaunch WASHINGTON — SpinLaunch, a company developing an alternative launch system ...

One of the most exciting things about NASA signing on to test SpinLaunch's system is the number of possibilities that it unlocks for getting more satellites to space. Currently, getting new spacecraft ...

DIU completed the Cassowary Vex hypersonic test flight under the HyCAT program, demonstrating sustained Mach 5+ air-breathing cruise capability.

SpinLaunch is striving to build a scaled-up version of its "kinetic launch system"—one capable of hurling objects into space. Reading time 2 minutes California startup SpinLaunch recently performed ...

Rocket Lab last week launched a modified version of its suborbital launch vehicle to release a scramjet-powered 3D-printed air vehicle in support of a ...

Rocket Lab scrubbed the planned Feb. 25 launch of its HASTE suborbital rocket, which will send a scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicle up for the U.S. military. No new target date has been announced.

NASA has reached a partnership with a company to test launch a payload to suborbital space at high speed from a centrifuge-like device that requires no rocket propulsion. The ultimate goal: to ...

One of the brutal truths about getting things off the Earth and into space is contained in something called The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, which, to put it absurdly simply, means that most of the ...

We already got to see what it looks like when SpinLaunch literally throws something into the atmosphere at over 1,000 miles per hour. Now, though, the tenth test of the Suborbital Accelerator the ...

An Australian-designed hypersonic aircraft has taken flight in space after Rocket Lab, the New Zealand-founded space company, ...

SpaceX has long been at the front of US space operations, but now a new company has unveiled a hypersonic rocket that could set the new standard.