NASA Selects Nine Technology Payloads For Reduced-Gravity Flights

NASA has selected nine proposals to demonstrate new technologies for the second set of payloads to fly on commercial suborbital reusable launch vehicles and the Zero-G commercial parabolic aircraft. NASA is using commercially available vehicles to carry...

Space Day Trips One Step Closer As Wet Lease Contract is Signed for Lynx Suborbital Spacecraft

Space Expedition Curacao (SXC) and XCOR Aerospace, Inc. have jointly announced the completion of a multi-million dollar transaction that secures the wet lease of production Lynx tail number two for operation on the Caribbean island of Curacao, pending...

NASA Selects XCOR Aerospace to Provide Suborbital Flight And Payload Integration Services for Research And Scientific Missions

NASA has selected XCOR Aerospace to provide suborbital flight and payload integration services for research and scientific missions in a program that will offer up to $10 million dollars in contracts to match payload customers with flight vehicle services....

NASA Seeking Commercial Suborbital Flight Services Proposals

NASA is seeking proposals for services from commercial suborbital flight providers and payload integrators to support the agency’s Flight Opportunities Program, which is part of NASA’s Office of the Chief Technologist.

LaserMotive of Seattle Wins $900,00 in the NASA Power Beaming Challenge Competition

NASA has awarded $900,000 in prize money to a Seattle company that successfully demonstrated new wireless energy beaming technology which could one day be used to help power a “space elevator.”