Assembly has been completed on the first test engine that will power DARPA's Boeing-built, next generation spaceplane. Built by Aerojet Rocketdyne , the first updated AR-22 rocket engine for 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...