Supersonic combustion is used to propel hypersonic scramjets, which travel at speeds over Mach 5. These engines are fundamentally different from traditional jet engines. They feature a more efficient, ...

NASA’s X-43A, a groundbreaking hypersonic scramjet vehicle, achieved an unprecedented speed of Mach 9.6, solidifying its status as the fastest atmospheric combustion-engine air vehicle in the world.

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 ...

The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved funding for research on new technology that could one day allow planes to travel anywhere in the world within two hours. The $25 million research ...

CHICAGO, Nov. 17, 2004 – Information gained from Tuesday’s record-setting flight of NASA’s Hyper-X research vehicle will be used by Boeing [NYSE: BA] as it designs the future of flight. Powered by an ...

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 ...

A team at the Purdue Applied Research Institute (PARI), the university’s research and development center, is using state-of-the-art additive-manufacturing equipment to print a full-scale, fully ...

An Australian hypersonic scramjet technology demonstrator is expected to be launched from the Andøya Rocket Range in Norway as early as Sept. 17. The Scramspace (Scramjet-based Access-to-Space Systems ...

The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine design that could potentially allow conventional.

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hypersonix Launch Systems Ltd. and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (KTOS) announced today an Exclusive Teaming Agreement to provide the ...