The two-week window for the first flight under DARPA’s Launch Challenge opened on Feb. 17. For California startup Astra, the sole competitor left in the responsive-launch contest, it will also be the ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is now ready for small businesses to start working on and submitting proposals for a potential five-year, $700 million contract vehicle focused on ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—DARPA has awarded $400 million to three space launch companies—Vector Launch, Virgin Orbit and a third, as-yet-unidentified company—to participate in its launch challenge aimed at ...

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- David Hall, widely recognized as a founder of the lidar industry, returns to CES to unveil major new innovations from two independent companies: Hall Lidar Inc.

DARPA will launch the second flight test of an unmanned hypersonic glider Thursday (Aug. 11) to test technologies needed for a new global strike bomber concept designed to fly 20 times the speed of ...

The Boeing Company has been awarded an 18-month study contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to evaluate technologies for on-demand small satellite launch systems. Under ...