Following their success in developing hypersonic missiles, China has now set its sights on creating a hypersonic aircraft. Should this endeavour prove successful, such an aircraft would possess the ...

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 ...

The Talon has been in the news for some time now, not in small part because it is described as America's first privately funded, reusable hypersonic aircraft. It is basically a testbed that can be ...

Stratolaunch previously test flew the gargantuan aircraft for the Navy under a project called the Multiservice Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB). It deployed Talon-A, an autonomous ...

Beijing-based Space Transportation, also known as Lingkong Tianxing Technology, recently revealed not one but two hypersonic aircraft: The Yunxing commercial passenger jet and the Cuantianhou ...

Stratolaunch, a California-based firm building a reusable hypersonic test vehicle, is modifying its carrier aircraft to support high-speed test missions around the globe. Through a nearly $25 ...

Hypersonic aircraft company Hermeus and propulsion company Ursa Major are among those to emerge as hundreds of millions in investments have poured into the space. Castelion is unique among the bunch ...

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 ...

Engineers will enhance controls and integrate advanced jet materials to create a full propulsion system, a key step toward achieving flight capabilities.

Stratolaunch is upgrading its 747 carrier platform to support test flights of its hypersonic Talon-A vehicle. (Stratolaunch) ...