The Stratolaunch is not by any means the first aircraft to haul a rocket up to 30,000 feet. That’s been done before, most notably with the Pegasus rocket. This rocket, developed by Orbital ATK ...

The static firing of New Glenn’s first stage BE-4 rocket engines concluded a multi-day test campaign that included inert functional ... to propel two Nimitz-class aircraft carriers at full ...

There's a 26 per cent annual chance that space rocket junk will re-enter the atmosphere and pass through a busy flight area, according to a recent study. While the chance of debris hitting an aircraft ...