O n October 14, 1947, a B-29 Superfortress bomber took off with a small, dart-shaped, rocket-powered aircraft called the Bell X-1 slung under its belly, nestled partway into its bomb bay. Air ...

SpaceX made multiple changes in the wake of a January Starship failure, only to suffer a second straight vehicle breakup ...

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 ...

Rocket-powered takeoffs Despite its hulking size, the four-engined flying boats had a maximum speed of over 200 mph. The aircraft had a service ceiling of up to 14,600 feet and a range of 4,900 ...

Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS ... As long as civilization has existed, the world has witnessed shifting power balances and alliances which have ultimately shaped the current geopolitical ...

It is not just rocket companies that are developing vehicles ... But bigger battery-powered aircraft — carrying passengers and that take off and land like a helicopter — are expected to ...