Watch the Dawn Aerospace's Mk-II Aurora Spaceplane light up it rocket engine test flight. Credit: Dawn Aerospace ...

Houston-based Venus Aerospace flew a rotating detonation rocket engine last week, proving a key technology for the high-speed plane it's developing to fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo in two hours.

Dawn Aerospace Begins Taking Orders for Aurora Spaceplane: A Breakthrough Rocket-Powered Aircraft. Share. First spaceplane for sale, capable of reaching 100 km, now available for delivery in 2027.

A plane is supersonic if it moves faster than the speed of sound in air, which is around 343 meters per second (767 miles per hour, 1235 kilometers per hour). That is what is considered Mach 1.

Branson logged a well-publicized suborbital flight in July 2021 aboard his company's VSS Unity rocket-powered spacecraft. Virgin Galactic building new Delta rocket planes Virgin Galactic retired ...

The Talon-A2’s design is reminiscent of the Space Shuttle. It’s 28 feet long and is powered by a 5,000-pound-thrust reusable rocket engine built by US startup Ursa Major. The vehicle was air-launched ...

This is the first time anyone in the United States has flown a reusable hypersonic rocket plane since the last flight of the X-15, the iconic rocket-powered aircraft that pushed the envelope of ...

Stratolaunch completed the first powered flight of a Talon-A vehicle last year when the rocket plane launched over the Pacific Ocean and fired its liquid-fueled Hadley engine —produced by Ursa ...

The Ohka was powered by three Type 4 Mark 1 Model 20 solid-fueled rocket motors, each producing 588 pounds of thrust. Once ignited, it could reach 403 mph, and its terminal dive velocity could ...

Between July and October of 1941, the Komet, fitted with Walter’s improved R II-203b rocket motor producing 1,635 lb of thrust, flew powered trials at Peenemünde.

The rocket-powered Aurora rushed down the runway, climbed to 82,500 feet ... In doing so, the crewless, rocket-powered plane beat the record set by an F-15 Streak Eagle in the 1970s by 4.2 seconds.