India today entered the ranks of spacefaring nations with reusable spacecraft as the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) conducted the first flight of its locally-built spaceplane demonstrator.

privately owned and operated RLV systems. The team’s submission, whose total potential value was not disclosed, includes proposals for RLV architecture systems engineering and several important ...

It is more than 30 years since NASA last conducted a dedicated hypersonic research flight. That was in 1969 when the X-15 raised the speed bar to Mach 6.7. Now the USA plans to lift the bar to M10 and ...