Key Points and Summary - NASA's X-43A, an unmanned scramjet testbed, set the world record for an air-breathing aircraft by hitting Mach 9.6 in 2004. -Launched from a B-52 and boosted by a Pegasus ...

Just a couple of decades ago, aviation had some rules. If you wanted to fly fast within the atmosphere, you used a jet engine. The champion here was the SR-71 Blackbird, designed by Lockheed Martin, ...

Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that its Hyper-X Launch Vehicle was successfully launched on Saturday, March 27 in a flight test that originated from NASA’s Dryden Flight ...

Hitting a target with a missile anywhere in the world in less than an hour – that’s the Pentagon’s goal with its ongoing development of hypersonic weapons. Moving from the experimental phase to ...

Russia has escalated missile and drone strikes on Ukraine, killing over fifty people this month. Ukraine is also launching ...

Alliant Techsystems, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) successfully ground-launched and flew a hypersonic scramjet-powered vehicle from the ...

The Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) regards the ground test of an active cooled scramjet combustor as being a milestone in its development of next-generation hypersonic missiles. (Defence Research ...

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Yet the notion of a business jet operating at Mach 5 remained a sci-fi fantasy. That is, until recent advances in design and technology have brought the concept closer to a workable reality. “We’re ...