SpaceX aims to launch the 10th test flight of Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, about three weeks ...

Stall behavior plays a critical role in flight testing. Learn how design tweaks like stall strips and slots improve safety during early flights. The post Build, Test, Refine and Fix-Part 4: Stall ...

The SPRINT project is a joint DARPA/ US Special Operations Command effort that aims to fly an X-plane. The program had entered phase one in November 2023, and in May 2024, Aurora Flight Sciences and ...

As NASA continues work to find a fix for the thruster issues that have afflicted Boeing's Starliner astronaut taxi, chances ...

As SpaceX prepares to send up its 19th Dragon spacecraft with humans on board, the Boeing Starliner—which has only completed ...

Wisk has been working for several years to design, test and build a self-flying, all-electric air taxi for urban transportation missions. Though the company has a longer-term vision than ...

RTX companies Pratt & Whitney and Collins Aerospace continue to examine how they could take a hybrid-electric version of the PW1100G engine to flight test even as they prepare to build the first ...

Seattle-based Outbound Aerospace has put a prototype aircraft through its first test flight after raising $1.15 million in pre-seed funding.

The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Bell Textron to build an X-plane demonstrator capable of flying at speeds of up to 450 knots, with the office […] ...

The high-speed uncrewed test aircraft performed its first flight at Edwards AFB, just a year after the launch of the development. ... it was mentioned that design and build required only 204 days.

Astronauts orbiting 250 miles above Earth got a front-row seat to destruction on Thursday. During a SpaceX flight test of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket and spacecraft system, NASA's ...