Hypersonic aircraft promise to compress distance and time in ways that make even the fastest supersonic jets look dated, yet the United States Air Force is discovering that flying at several times the ...

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in 2025 conducted high-speed, supersonic, and hypersonic aircraft tests, supporting aeronautics, air mobility, and Earth observation through experimental flights ...

If you travel fast enough past the speed of sound, you enter hypersonic territory, but attaining those speeds comes with a lot of challenges.

The race to bring hypersonic flight into the real world just took a leap forward with Venus Aerospace's successful test of a revolutionary engine. The Houston-based startup has developed a compact ...

May 5 (UPI) --Stratolaunch successfully tested for the second time a fully recoverable uncrewed hypersonic vehicle for the Department of Defense in March, the private contractor and federal agency ...

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 ...

MOJAVE, Calif., May 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Stratolaunch is pleased to announce the successful completion of its second hypersonic flight and recovery with the Talon-A2 (TA-2) fully autonomous vehicle ...

MOJAVE, Calif., May 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Stratolaunch is pleased to announce the successful completion of its second hypersonic flight and recovery with the Talon-A2 (TA-2) fully autonomous vehicle ...