Hypersonic flight is entering a new era as Varda Space Industries, in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force, prepares to test ...
"Affordable, frequent reentry flight test opportunities support S&T development for early risk reduction studies, reducing cost and schedule for novel technologies." The W-3 capsule's payload is ...
Varda Space has successfully landed a reentry capsule in Australia, delivering critical data that could advance in-space ...
Rocket Lab’s Pioneer spacecraft delivered Varda’s W-2 mission that included a hypersonic re-entry capsule carrying a spectrometer from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and a heatshield ...
Prometheus fills a longstanding experimentation gap for the maturation of future reentry system technologies," said Dr. Erin Vaughan, AFRL Prometheus Lead. The recovered capsule will undergo ...
today announced the successful launch of its third orbital processing and reentry capsule, W-3, just 15 days after the reentry of the company's second mission, which landed in Australia on Feb. 27, ...