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 ...
Hypersonic aircraft will need hypersonic engines. With that goal in mind, Ursa Major under a US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contract has conducted a series of hotfire tests of its advanced ...
NASA built an X-42A hydrogen-powered scramjet to reach speeds of Mach 9.6 for a brief moment in 2004. Therefore, this new ...
If you travel fast enough past the speed of sound, you enter hypersonic territory, but attaining those speeds comes with a ...
An aerospace company has unveiled a new hypersonic engine which it says makes a “major breakthrough” in high-speed flight. Venus Aerospace, a Texas-based company focused on making hypersonic travel a ...
Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Ursa Major Gathering More Hypersonic Missile Interest is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation ...
US startup New Frontier Aerospace has found success in its series of tests of its hypersonic engine called "Mjölnir," based on the best-known hammer of the Norse mythology thunder god, Thor. This new ...
Hypersonic weapons are in the spotlight. Here’s how they work, why they matter, and what current programs in Russia, China, ...
Britain has successfully tested of a new engine for hypersonic missiles in a crucial step forward for the UK’s defence capabilities in light of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. The critical research ...
In what may be a world first, Venus Aerospace has, for the first time in the US, successfully flown a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) that uses supersonic explosions to create thrust. Such ...
Decades before hypersonics entered today's headlines, NASA drafted an aircraft that bordered on surreal. Discover the story ...
Insolvency specialists handling the administration of UK firm Reaction Engines appear to be slowly closing in on the sale of ...