June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... attention to them, nor finding out more about these missions. Only a few reported on its successor, the X-37 spaceplane. In effect, the secret shuttle flights marked the normalisation of military space. Romantic adventure that spaceflight might...
05 June 2017
The world's largest airplane gets its debut
... and White Knight Two – an aircraft that has been acquired by Virgin Galactic to add to their fleet of suborbital spaceplanes. The aircraft has now been moved out of its hangar for the first time ever to conduct...
18 March 2019
A habitat prototype for NASA’s Moon-orbiting Gateway
..., Colorado, factory where the company is also building the Dream Chaser Cargo System, an autonomous lifting-body spaceplane contracted by NASA to launch on a rocket, resupply the ISS with cargo, and glide back to Earth for a runway...
14 April 2021
SNC launches independent subsidiary to expand space interests
... area. One of those was SpaceDev, which made satellite parts and was developing the Dream Chaser spaceplane. Now, with an autonomous Dream Chaser launching as soon as 2022 and a commercial space station concept attracting headlines...
29 March 2018
North American X-15 Owners’ Workshop Manual
... made the X-15 a recognised part of space history, as indeed it should be. This book tells the story of the historic spaceplane and some of the vehicles that preceded it, such as the fabled Dyna-Soar which took its name...
03 August 2018
Space activity at Farnborough FIA 2018
...-breathing and rocket modes, allowing for hypersonic air travel at Mach 5, or orbital access velocities of Mach 25 for spaceplanes like “Skylon”. RE are supported by their US subsidiary at Castle Rock, Colorado, “Reaction Engines Inc.” and are part...
