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.

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 ...

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 ...

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's Phantom Express in a video on the company's website. The AR-22 rocket engine will power an unmanned spaceplane, the "Phantom Express,'' at speeds of up to 10 times faster than the speed of ...

A major milestone 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 take off ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne’s AR-22 rocket engine fires during a test at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. (NASA / DARPA Photo) A rocket engine built from spare space shuttle parts — and the team ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The goal is to make a low-cost, on-demand vehicle to send satellites into orbit The goal is to make a low-cost, ...

An artist’s conception shows Boeing’s Phantom Express XS-1 space plane in flight. (Boeing Illustration) The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says Boeing is dropping out of its ...

New unmanned craft the size of a passenger jet will 'bolster national security by providing short-notice, low-cost access to space' THE US Military has agreed to pay Boeing more than £100 million to ...