Earlier this month, Boeing and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that they hope to build a new space plane to quickly carry satellites and other payloads into orbit.

Assembly has been completed on the first test engine that will power DARPA's Boeing-built, next generation spaceplane. Built by Aerojet Rocketdyne , the first updated AR-22 rocket engine for the ...

DARPA's ambitious launch-a-day spaceplane is a step closer to lift off after Boeing announced that it's been assigned the contract to work with the agency to design, build and test a technology ...

The Pentagon has given Boeing approval to build and test its reusable military XS-1 spaceplane, which will be capable of launching into space at short notice. The go-ahead was given by DARPA (Defense ...

Boeing and Aerojet Rocketdyne successfully test-fired a space shuttle-era engine 10 times in 10 days, demonstrating the rapid turnaround capability critical to the Phantom Express, a reusable ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed assembly of its first AR-22 rocket engine built for Boeing (NYSE:BA) as part of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Experimental Spaceplane ...

THE US Military has agreed to pay Boeing more than £100 million to build an experimental hypersonic place which will allow secret space missions to be launched on a daily basis. Boeing has dubbed the ...

The first rocket engines for a secretive hypersonic spaceplane the military could one day use to launch satellites at short notice have been completed. The reusable Phantom Express spaceplane will ...

Boeing has announced it is developing a new unmanned space plane for the US military, designed to launch satellites into orbit by 2020 at a moment’s notice. The rest of this article is behind a ...