DARPA and Boeing once set out to build a reusable hypersonic spaceplane capable of launching satellites daily and reshaping orbital warfare. What followed was a quiet cancellation, lingering secrecy, ...

Sierra Space, one of the sector's most valuable private companies, laid off several hundred employees and contractors this week, CNBC has learned. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. A ...

With their thrilling sci-fi aesthetics, spaceplanes are an attractive alternative to rockets. They are attractive in practical ways, too. Unlike traditional rockets, spaceplanes are reusable, flying ...

Freightliner Trucks, a subsidiary of Daimler Truck North America, worked with Sierra Space on high-speed runway tow tests for the Dream Chaser autonomous spaceplane, designed to transport pressurized ...

WEST DOT OR VIRGIN GALACTIC IS SET TO RETURN TO SPACEPORT AMERICA FOR MORE COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS. THE COMPANY SAYS THEIR NEW DELTA CLASS SPACECRAFT AND UPGRADED MOTHERSHIP, NAMED THE VMS EVE, WILL START ...

SpaceX — which is based in Hawthorne and whose full name is Space Exploration Technologies Corp. — was certified by the Air Force in 2015 to carry national security satellites, which broke up a ...

I sometimes wonder where we would be now, as a species, had the Soviet Union not collapsed and continued its space race with the United States. Would we have already colonized other planets by now, or ...