While U.S.-based companies are launching more payloads into orbit than ever before, they’re still limited by the inefficiency ...

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.

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a hypersonic missile whose speed and strike capability ...

A NASA system designed to measure temperature and strain on high-speed vehicles is set to make its first flights at ...

The veteran physicist and aerospace engineer shares insights into the challenges and breakthroughs in microwave plasma ...

Of course, challenges remain around how hypersonic flight works in a commercial sense. Heat resistance, aircraft stability at Mach 5+, and international aviation regulations are major hurdles.

A hypersonics weapon startup is lining up a massive new funding round to scale its business with the U.S Department of ...

Simply put, hypersonic weapons are any missile that travels beyond Mach 5, five times the speed of sound. Ballistic missiles, fired high up or outside the earth’s atmosphere, routinely reach ...

Simply put, hypersonic weapons are any missile that travels beyond Mach 5, five times the speed of sound. Ballistic missiles, fired high up or outside the earth’s atmosphere, routinely reach ...