POWAY, Calif. SpaceDev announced today its concept for the SpaceDev Dream Chaser(TM) vehicle, a six-passenger human space transport system based on the ten-passenger HL-20 Personnel Launch System ...

A Seattle-area startup called Radian Aerospace is fine-tuning the design of its orbital space plane, with an eye toward building a subscale prototype as early as this year. The company is also in the ...

The European Space Agency signed a contract Monday with Avio, the Italian company behind the small Vega rocket, to begin designing a reusable upper stage capable of flying into orbit, returning to ...

A model of Space Transportation's Cuantianhou spaceplane on display at Space Tech Expo Europe. Credit: SpaceNews/Andrew Jones BREMEN, Germany — Beijing-based Space Transportation is projecting the ...