More than 60 years ago, scientists in the United States imagined a powerful engine that could push aircraft to hypersonic speeds—up to 16 times the speed of sound. This dream involved something called ...

China has surpassed the US in the race to develop practical scramjet-powered land-based systems, ...

Labour has fast-tracked a £12m deal to build hypersonic missiles to modernise its arsenal of weapons. The deal was awarded to ...

Houston startup proves breakthrough propulsion technology, laying the groundwork for hypersonic vehicles to take off from conventional runways Theorized since the 1980s, a high-thrust RDRE capable of ...

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

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 ...

A big reason is the long-range CJ-1000, the world’s first and so far only operational land-based scramjet-powered hypersonic missile.

GE and Lockheed Martin have demonstrated a new rotating detonation engine ramjet design in a series of tests that show significant potential for efficiency gains. If developed into a full missile ...

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

Venus Aerospace has made the most efficient rocket engines ever flown. They will go from runway to mach 9 hypersonic speed. The Venus Aerospace Stargazer M4 is designed to reach a top speed of Mach 9, ...

Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB) is gearing up for an upcoming launch that underscores its growing role in U.S. defense and ...

The European Space Agency is throwing its weight behind a design effort for a hypersonic spaceplane, with hopes of getting the final idea airborne (and spaceborne) by 2031. The ESA is putting up ...