A Chinese aerospace firm has completed the first test flight of a passenger plane that it claims can ... could go as fast as ...

Kratos already has built a hypersonic portfolio with a pair of hypersonic glide vehicles called Erinyes and Dark Fury. Both ...

The situation might change with the Quarterhorse, a hypersonic passenger plane technology demonstrator. Hypersonic vehicles are commonly associated with weapons. They are gliding or propulsion ...

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Venus Aerospace is building a hypersonic aircraft that can carry about a dozen passengers, traveling at Mach 9, nine times the speed of sound. The Stargazer, which measures 150 feet long by 100 feet ...

Germany’s armed forces have commissioned Bremen-based startup Polaris to develop a two-stage, fully reusable hypersonic space plane — and given the team just three years to build it.

The plane would travel at hypersonic speed – more than 6,000km ... it takes a regular passenger aeroplane about 14 hours to fly between the two cities – a distance of about 11,000km.

The U.S. Navy is transforming a costly flub into a potent weapon with the first shipborne hypersonic weapon ... and former commander of an aircraft carrier strike force. Conventional missiles ...

In contrast to aircraft and subsonic missiles, the Navy’s hypersonic Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) missile reaches a 2,200 nautical mile distant target in 30 minutes. A nation amply equipped ...

While the latest generation of both supersonic and hypersonic aircraft mostly use jet engines and atmospheric ... Space Perspective and Zephalto that do not reach Low Earth Orbit. “Passengers will be ...