NASA’s X-43A was a small, unmanned experimental aircraft that, in 2004, shattered world records by flying at nearly Mach 10 (almost 7,000 mph), becoming the fastest air-breathing vehicle in history.

Scramjets unleashing hypersonic speeds with supersonic combustion, revolutionizing aerospace, defense, and space exploration!

ESA is backing a new project called Invictus that aims to develop and launch a hydrogen-powered spaceplane by 2031.

Fast-tracking the hypersonic era, Hermeus has rolled out the next prototype of its program, to create a family of aircraft that can fly beyond Mach 5. The Quarterhorse Mk 1 is set to fly later ...

The 70-meter (230-foot) aircraft would offer “generous personal space” for folks on the lower deck, and “all imaginable luxuries” for those up top. More importantly, though, it would offer ...

Ahead of the UK Space Conference (Manchester, 16th-17th July 2025), Frazer-Nash has announced it is leading a new research ...

Hermeus’ technology demonstrator, Quarterhorse, eventually aims to achieve speeds in excess of Mach 4 and potentially even higher thanks to the company’s unique propulsion system design.But ...

The pilot of the X-15 had to manually jettison the lower fin to land properly because it was longer than the rear skids of ...

Established in 2011, the 362-employee company based in Mojave, California, has built the first hypersonic aircraft to land since the X-15 was shuttered in 1968.

He noted that forces acting on a small-scale hypersonic aircraft can be extrapolated to a larger design, and in theory, should be more reliable than computer simulations or Earth-bound physical ...

The U.S. hasn’t had a recoverable hypersonic aircraft since the X-15, which stopped flying in the late 1960s — and it’s never had one that’s fully autonomous.