One of the Colorado manufacturer's Hadley rocket engines propelled the Stratolaunch Talon-A test vehicle to speeds beyond ...

A breakthrough came earlier this year, however, when Texas-based Firefly Aerospace became the first commercial firm to achieve a fully successful soft landing, with its Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander.

Musk’s company is too deeply embedded in the U.S. space ecosystem for Trump to sideline it, Kathleen Curlee writes in a guest ...