"Once something's up in space and in orbit — and if it doesn't work — it's not like you can bring it back and fix it and send it back up again": Phil Monkress.

The Space Coast set a new record in 2024 with 93 launches from all providers, building off the 72 orbital missions flown in 2023. With SpaceX’s continued pace, more launches from United Launch ...

Sierra Space and Radian are developing spaceplanes that fly at hypersonic speeds, but are able to head into Low Earth Orbit ...

And the springtime launch schedule looks loaded at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and neighboring Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—Sierra Space has announced pharmaceutical giant Merck as its first commercial rideshare partner for the inaugural flight of the Dream Chaser spaceplane on a NASA mission later this ...

This is the first announcement of a commercial contact partner for Sierra Space's upcoming Dream Chaser mission, highlighting payload "rideshare" capabilities of the spaceplane. Cargo will also ...

In collaboration with Merck, Sierra Space aims to advance research and development of biopharmaceutical solutions in space by conducting experiments to help identify new ways to deliver cancer ...

Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company and defense tech ... research and development of biopharmaceutical solutions in low-Earth orbit during the Dream Chaser spaceplane's inaugural mission ...

Two other aerospace companies, Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries, folded while chasing such a dream in the past six years. So far, only government space agencies from the United States ...