Discover the story of the North American X-15's first powered flight on September 17, 1959, when Scott Crossfield piloted the ...

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 ...

Dawn Aerospace received approval from New Zealand's Civil Aviation Authority to operate its rocket-powered aircraft, the Mk-II Aurora, at supersonic speeds and beyond visual line of sight. The Aurora, ...

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 ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Dawn Aerospace's rocket-powered aircraft successfully completed its first supersonic flight, the company said in a statement on Tuesday, as it moves forward with developing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though it was canceled in 1946, the Bell D-35 legacy endures in aviation history as a bridge to modern interceptors.

The Aurora certified as an aircraft so it can use a conventional runway. Credit: Dawn Aerospace Dawn Aerospace has flown its Mk. 2 Aurora rocket-powered suborbital demonstrator aircraft twice within 8 ...

Why it matters: Back in the 90s, NASA had a bold vision: to develop a reusable space plane called the X-33 that could dramatically reduce the cost of launching payloads into orbit. However, the agency ...

(CNN) The first 3D-printed toy plane will soon jet off to the stratosphere. The rocket-powered airplane will reach an altitude of between 25 and 30 kilometers (15 to 18 miles) -- three times higher ...