The Defense Innovation Unit achieved a successful suborbital launch of a hypersonic test platform that demonstrated sustained ...

An aircraft running on hydrogen that races through the upper atmosphere at speeds exceeding twelve times the speed of sound might seem like a fantasy reserved exclusively for science fiction. That, ...

Rocket Lab last week launched a modified version of its suborbital launch vehicle to release a scramjet-powered 3D-printed air vehicle in support of a ...

Supersonic combustion and scramjet engine dynamics represent a frontier in aerospace propulsion, offering a pathway to ultra‐high-speed flight through the efficient combustion of fuel in a supersonic ...

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The HACM (Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile) is becoming a "game-changing weapon" for the US Air Force, with its terrifying ...

Liftoff of the "That's Not a Knife" suborbital mission occurred at 7 p.m. ET on Friday (Feb. 27). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Australia’s reusable hypersonic engine program could have ramifications well beyond the military sector. Australia continues breaking new ground with its hypersonic weapons program. This time, ...

An Australian-made hypersonic vehicle completed its first flight late on Feb. 27, propelled to Mach 5-plus speeds by a Rocket Lab HASTE rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia. The scramjet-powered, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Launch of the next hypersonic flight experiment under a U.S.-Australian joint program has been scheduled for May 1, from Kauai, Hawaii, carrying a supersonic-combustion ramjet ...

The Langley Research Center maintained an active hypersonic research program from the early days of the formation of NASA in 1958. The goals of the Hypersonic Research Engine (HRE) project, which ...