A twin-fuselage jet stood ready on Thursday to carry a Virgin Galactic rocket plane with a three-man crew from Italy into the New Mexico sky for a high-altitude launch of the company's first ...

The space plane would take off aided by a rocket powered sled, from a 2-mile special runway, and then land horizontally like a plane.

A fun compilation video featuring a rocket-powered plane, RC cars in action, fireworks displays, and other experimental RC activities.

The passenger rocket plane operated by Virgin Galactic lifts off during the company's first commercial flight to the edge of space, at the Spaceport America facility, in Truth or Consequences, New ...

Stratolaunch completed two flights of its autonomous Talon-A2 rocket plane earlier this year, as the US aims to gain ground in its race for hypersonic supremacy with China.

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The Air Force's Bell X-1 rocket plane started its famous supersonic flights by being dropped from a high-flying B29. Last week, trying something new, it took off from the ground for the first ...

Deep tech Dawn Aerospace is proving that spaceplanes aren’t rocket science Daily flights to outer space from a runway on Earth are closer than you might think ...

The product of this updated technology is the Radian One, a new space plane that will replace vertical launch with a very unusual system — a rocket-powered sled. Wasteful stages To be able to ...

A twin-fuselage jet stood ready on Thursday to carry a Virgin Galactic rocket plane with a three-man crew from Italy into the New Mexico sky for a high-altitude launch of the company's first ...

A rocket capable of reaching that velocity would need to devote 95% of its mass to fuel, Hoffman says, leaving very little room for everything else.