Dawn Aerospace’s rocket-powered aircraft soared to new heights in its latest test campaign, as the company looks to build what could be the highest-performance aircraft to take off from a runway. The ...

Stratolaunch has finally found a use for the world’s largest airplane. Twice in the past five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated it to more than five ...

Welcome to Edition 6.07 of the Rocket Report! I spent a few days last week in southern New Mexico, visiting Spaceport America and Virgin Galactic’s facilities there. I felt a renewed sense of optimism ...

What did they do when the American rocket program HIT A WALL in the 1940s? The answer wasn't a bigger missile—it was a tiny, ...

The rebirth of commercial supersonic flight has kind of, sort of come to pass as Dawn Aerospace announces that its 16-ft (4.8-m) Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft broke the sound barrier with a ...

The space exploration business is booming in our day and age, and that is owed, not it small part, to the countless startups that provide transportation to space for all those who need it. But whereas ...

Dawn Aerospace has flown its rocket-powered aircraft past the speed of sound, the latest milestone on its path to its first commercial flights. During the test, which took place on New Zealand’s South ...

Aircraft For Sale's "Today's Top Pick" is a 1980 Mooney M20K 305 Rocket, praised for its unique qualities. This specific aircraft features a rare "Rocket 305 hp conversion" aftermarket STC, ...

This actually is a bad idea for a different reason. The more traffic we send into space, we increase the likely hood of a potential disaster ( Kessler effect ). Unlike cars on a road, where more ...

On Monday, Nov. 3, a husband and wife walked away from their small plane crash outside of Sedona, Ariz. unharmed, authorities ...