SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The Federal Aviation Administration issued a license today (July 26) to the private spaceflight company Armadillo Aerospace, a move that allows the firm to launch a new reusable rocket on short space missions. Full story
The private spaceflight company Armadillo Aerospace is taking a close look at the results from its latest rocket test in the New Mexico desert — a flight that hit a snag while testing a new launch and balloon parachute technologies. Full story
Billed as the nation’s first dedicated commercial spaceport, New Mexico's Spaceport America is becoming a desirable location to experiment with new types of reusable booster systems. Full story
NASA has picked seven private spaceflight companies, each working to build a commercial spaceship, as its transportation of choice for launching experiments to the edge of space and back. Full story
Work on Spaceport America is in full swing, with the state-of-the-art space launch facility near Truth or Consequences, N.M. expected to become fully operational in 2011. Full story
LAS CRUCES, N.M. Failure is not just an option in fact, it usually comes standard in rocket science. Full story
This picture provides a view of the parachute ballute deployment on Armadillo Aerospace's STIG-A III rocket, launched from Spaceport America on Jan. 28.
Armadillo Aerospace's Super-Mod craft rises into the sky during a 2009 flight that earned it a $500,000 share of the prize money in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge.
An artist's conception shows an Armadillo Aerospace vertical-launch vehicle starting out on a suborbital space trip.
