On a recent bright but breezy afternoon, he took a large motorized glider and much smaller rocket glider out for a spin. He had made the former from a kit and the latter from raw materials.

It’s called the Towed Glider Air-Launch System (TGALS) and it’s designed to launch orbital rockets from high altitude at a fraction of the cost of current methods.

The Bell X-1 in which Chuck Yeager shattered the sound barrier or the fabulous X-15, perhaps the world’s first spaceship, hardly sprang into being from nothing. They were the products of a long ...

Typically a rocket-powered glider consumes fuel at a rapid rate, so most glide in for a landing. Examples include the German Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket-powered interceptor seen above, as well as the ...

R eports have emerged that China is actively converting its ground-launched rocket artillery into low-cost, air-targeting precision gliders. If successful, this could rewrite the history of how ...

Project Topic: Rocket Boosted Glider Payload Delivery System Description: The H.A.W.K. aims to develop a hybrid rocket glider system that can safely and accurately deliver medical supplies to remote ...

The space gliders would be used to launch cubesats into orbit. Cubesats are small, low-cost satellites that weigh under 200 pounds and can be built and sent into orbit for low cost.

KODIAK, Alaska – A rocket with a payload that included an experimental Army strike weapon exploded after taking off from an Alaska launch pad. Defense Department spokeswoman Maureen Schumann ...