The U.S. military is developing the XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane to launch space missions faster and cheaper than ever before. See photos and images of the DARPA-led XS-1 space plane project in ...

The XS-1 is a space plane under development by the U.S ... Test fights are scheduled for 2020. The XS-1 (Experimental Spaceplane 1) is envisioned to heft payloads for less than $5 million a ...

It takes a lot more money and preparation to launch a rocket than to have a plane take off ... first initiated its Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program. The idea is that once built, the XS ...

Masten Space Systems of Mojave ... Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to award under its Experimental Spaceplane-1, or XS-1, program. The nearly $3 million award, made in response to a ...

DARPA is now beginning to narrow in on a design for the XS-1, an experimental spaceplane that ... why not make daily updates to your orbital assets? Space is now too expensive even for the US ...

Darpa’s new competition to build and fly the XS-1 experimental spaceplane requires bidders to submit a plan to transition the reusable launch vehicle demonstrator to a commercial business model.

In the 1990s, NASA designed an experimental space plane meant to be a cost-effective alternative to expensive rockets. Called the X-33, it was based on a concept called SSTO — or “single stage ...

The Bell X-1, then called the XS-1 (XS standing for “Experimental ... and has since been displayed at the National Air and ...

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