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China launched its secretive reusable space plane into orbit for its third mission on Dec. 14, just one day after the U.S. Space Force took its own X-37B space plane off the launch pad.

Sierra Space marked a historic achievement with the completion of its first Dream Chaser space plane, which could launch as soon as April 2024.

United States Space Operations Command revealed its first official painting, which depicts a "futuristic intercept vehicle" engaging an adversary satellite in orbit above Earth.

Virgin Galactic plans to launch 'Galactic 04,' its fifth spaceflight in the last five months, on Oct. 5 from Spaceport America in New Mexico.

Virgin Galactic has announced it will manufacture spaceships at a leased facility in a Phoenix, Arizona suburb.

RESTON, Va., Sept. 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ASCEND, the interdisciplinary community focused on building humanity’s off-world future faster, today unveiled its six-day agenda packed with hundreds of visionary sessions and inspiring speakers. Powered by AIAA, ASCEND was launched in 2020 to Accelerate Space Commerce, Exploration, and New Discovery. Scheduled for 8-10 and 15-17 November, the 2021 ASCEND centerpiece event will…

Regular space tourism, then were going to start to see how the business is actually going to pan out. but lets remember, as far as the new space economy goes, space tourism is just a small part of it. >> when do we get to the point -- we were joking about it -- >> yeah. >> where its affordable? >> listen, youre talking -- youre speaking to the choir here, right? i want to go. well, look, when we started tickets were in the tens of millions. now theyre in the hundreds of thousands. and there is v...

Hours and experience g-forces. i think probably up to 3 1/2 gs for a number of seconds during the boost phase and then the g forces they experience on the way down. but i think its safe and i dont really know how safe it is. well have to see over time. but i think the experience is benign enough and the requirements on the crew are low enough that you could have a pretty broad range of people to be able to have this experience, assuming they could afford it. >> interesting. all right. well, well...

Does China’s rapid military modernisation, drive China’s current space programme? (Part 2) December 17, 2020, 4:57 PM IST Dr. Maj Gen (Retd) Anil Kumar Lal is a Defence Analyst who has authored many path-breaking concepts on Nuclear and Space Warfare strategies. He feels that the future Military Forces would be dictated by a new concept of Strategic detterence which would be a combined effect of Nuclear and Space detterence. He is a third generation Indian Army Officer, wh...

Will be less expensive and more efficient i guess, right? >> absolutely. the idea of space planes has been around for a longtime. the first space plane flew back in the 60s. it was manned of course, and this is another version of a space plane but unmanned. martha: general, does this give you increased confidence? we know that the space program has been curtailed a lot of people would like it to be fund ned a stronger way. we know that we are facing a lot of defense cuts, especially if we go off...