Twice in the past five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated it to more than five times the speed of sound, and autonomously landed at Vandenberg ...

Twice in the last five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated it to more than five times the speed of sound, and autonomously landed at Vandenberg ...

Stratolaunch completed the second hypersonic flight and recovery with the Talon-A2 fully autonomous vehicle. Credit: Stratolaunch WASHINGTON — The U.S. is re-entering the era of reusable ...

The US Department of Defense performed a secretive test of its Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon, Dark Eagle, over the weekend. According to several reports, the test mission flew from Cape Canaveral ...

WASHINGTON — The Army dubbed its new hypersonic missile the “Dark Eagle,” paying tribute to a U.S. national symbol, as the developing system nears the end of testing. The land-based ...

Due to budget constraints, the U.S. Navy has canceled its HALO hypersonic missile program but continues investing in long-range strike capabilities like the LRASM. Over two years ago, the United ...

The United States has actively pursued the development of hypersonic weapons—maneuvering weapons that fly at speeds of at least Mach 5—as a part of its conventional prompt global strike ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) 3D simulations of hypersonic shock waves reveal new flow disturbances, particularly breaks in the flow within shock layers around cone-shaped models at Mach 16 ...

About 12 years later, the U.S. Air Force’s X-15 became the first piloted aircraft to achieve hypersonic flight, generally defined as reaching a minimum of Mach 5 (five times faster than the ...

Each member of this axis of aggressors has developed (or at least has claimed to have developed) operational hypersonic weapons. These adversaries’ hypersonic capabilities significantly enhance ...

As Russia and China make advancements on hypersonic missiles, Canada has reactivated a test facility related to such weapons that hasn’t been in use for the past 20 years. The Department of ...

February 13 2025, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced its secretive Aerospace Projects Office (APO) is developing a large hypersonic bomber prototype as part of the Next ...