Aerospace startup Polaris Raumflugzeuge has been awarded a contract by the German government to develop and fly a revolutionary Linear AeroSpike (LAS) engine that replaces the conventional rocket ...

A ground-breaking new rocket equipped with an ‘aerospike’ engine that could revolutionise space travel is ready for ground tests, according to the Las Cruces-based company Arca.

The company is gearing up for a full-scale version of their Aurora spaceplane using a linear aerospike rocket engine. Polaris Spaceplanes, a German aerospace company, has successfully completed a ...

And the company got a very important boost this week after the German military awarded it a contract to "study the potential of a linear aerospike (LAS) rocket engine as propulsion element in a ...

A linear aerospike engine was one of the main selling points for the cancelled VentureStar Space Shuttle replacement. This isn’t the only generative design headed to space, ...