Germany has awarded Polaris Spaceplanes a contract to develop and flight test a two-stage ...

Rocket Lab is preparing its fourth military hypersonic test mission in under six months for the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit ...

SR-72 “Darkstar”: The Mach 6 Successor to the SR-71 That Could Also Strike Summary and Key Points: The SR-71 remains the ...

NASA awards studies to SpaceWorks and Stratolaunch aimed at making hypersonic flight testing more affordable and repeatable.

Hypersonix is executing test flights that will demonstrate sustained hypersonic flight powered by hydrogen Australian ...

"Hypersonic" refers to speeds over Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound. That's approximately 3,800 miles per hour, a pace that could take you all the way around the equator in less time than it ...

The flight is scheduled for no earlier than late February, launching aboard Rocket Lab’s “That’s Not A Knife” mission from ...

In 2024, Hermeus built their first aircraft and completed its ground test campaign. They opened a new test facility – set to become a national asset for high-Mach and hypersonic propulsion testing, ...

Stratolaunch has finally found a use for the world’s largest airplane. Twice in the past five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated it to more than five ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

The payoff for reaching air-breathing hypersonic flight—five times the speed of sound, without rockets—would be revolutionary. A hypersonic airliner could carry passengers to any place on Earth within ...

Chinese researchers have revealed progress on a weapon concept that could compress hypersonic performance ...