The Blackswift Hypersonic program may not get fully funded for the $750 million that it needs, but the program has a lot of interesting technology and innovations for greater efficiency. This ...
Back in 1986, Ronald Reagan announced plans for a "a new Orient Express that could... take off from Dulles Airport and accelerate up to twenty-five times the speed of sound, attaining low earth orbit ...
Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson announced on Tuesday that the aerospace company has made "several breakthroughs" on a hypersonic warplane that could reach Mach 6, known as the Hypersonic Test ...
The Pentagon's far-out science arm is planning an April test flight for a prototype of a hypersonic weapon that – in theory – could cross the Pacific Ocean in under two hours. In a solicitation issued ...
An unmanned aircraft that can travel at a breakneck pace 20 times the speed of sound will take off Wednesday from an Air Force base in California for a test flight. The second flight of the Hypersonic ...
The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency may have lost contact with its Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 some 9min after launch, but the 23 April mission would appear to stand as a ...
When you're building a jet that exponentially accelerates past Mach 6 — as one does — you need to come up with a way to get it off the ground. Scramjets, or Constant Volume Combustion (CVC) engines, ...
DARPA's Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) hit approximately Mach 20 — about 13,000 miles per hour or 3.6 miles per second. DARPA claimed the Falcon could fly from New York City to Los ...