Hypersonic flight could one day make long-haul travel as quick as a short movie. Researchers are testing how turbulence ...
Stratolaunch previously announced it received $24.7 million from the Missile Defense Agency for a hypersonic flight test ...
A private Chinese aerospace company has entered the global defence spotlight after announcing it has begun mass production of ...
Private Chinese company Sichuan Lingkong Tianxing Technology unveiled its Yu Kong Ji (YKJ)-1000 hypersonic missile on Nov. 25 ...
Kratos Defense will utilize the Hermeus high-speed Quarterhorse aircraft as part of its support work for the U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency’s Multi-Service Advanced Capabilities Hypersonic ...
DARPA and the US Air Force have started the High Mach Gas Turbine (HMGT) program to develop reusable hypersonic planes. The core technology revolves around Turbine Based Combined Cycle (TBCC) ...
Hypersonic vehicles — aircraft that can reach speeds of Mach 5 and beyond — are subject to extreme conditions while they are in flight, requiring strong yet aerodynamic materials to keep them both in ...
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, ...
COLORADO SPRINGS—As interest grows in rotating detonation engines for hypersonic flight, a startup specialist in the technology says it will receive backing from Lockheed Martin’s corporate venture ...