SpaceDev announced the second anniversary of the Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS) microsatellite on January 12, 2005. Designed and built by SpaceDev for the University of California ...

SpaceDev announced today that it is competing to supply a safe hybrid rocket propulsion system for the SpaceShipOne program, a private sector manned sub-orbital space program. SpaceShipOne, announced ...

SpaceDev, Inc. has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA to facilitate its development of reliable, safe and affordable transportation of passengers and cargo to and from Earth orbit. Under the ...

POWAY, Calif. -- The man whose firm built the engine expected to power SpaceShipOne into suborbital space today plans to build his own craft and compete with his more celebrated partners, Paul Allen ...

The aerospace firm SpaceDev cast its hat into the ring of private human spaceflight today, announcing its plans to build a reuseable spacecraft that may one day carry passengers into orbit. Based in ...

SpaceDev is to provide the hybrid rocket motor for Scaled Composites' manned suborbital spaceship demonstrator and contender for the $10 million X-Prize. The SanDiego-based company was selected over ...

SpaceDev launched a new high performance microsatellite product program named the SpaceDev Modular Microsat Bus, a highly capable modular 100 kg (220 pound) microsatellite based on industry standard ...

SpaceDev, which provided the hybrid rocket motor technology that pushed the Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne past the sound barrier last month, is studying ways that technology could be used to ...

American entrepreneurJim Benson, founder of the aerospace firm SpaceDev that helped build the rocketengine that launched the world?s first privately-built manned spaceship intosuborbital space, died ...

Commercial space flight doesn't offer too many opportunities for investors, but there is one tiny prospect. You don't need to carry a light saber or speak Klingon to get excited about the doings in ...