With handful of start-ups on board from Hermeus to Venus Aerospace, hypersonic commercial flights could soon become a reality ...

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 ...

Kratos breaks ground on new facility to support hypersonic drone development. The firm was awarded a $1.45 billion contract ...

Stratolaunch celebrated a successful test but remained tight-lipped about who would use the hypersonic test vehicle. Those customers have since emerged: the United States Air Force and the ...

Chalk up another milestone for Stratolaunch, the air-launch venture created by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen: The company’s mammoth airplane deployed a winged test vehicle for its ...

The delivery of the first prototype hypersonic hardware to soldiers of the 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, 17th Field Artillery Brigade is completed on Oct. 7, 2021, with a ceremony ...

EHang, JAC Motors and Guoxian Holdings will conduct joint research on the automation of aircraft production technologies and build a manufacturing base, all to accelerate low-altitude aviation ...

Although the Pentagon says it intends to deploy its first hypersonic weapon by Sept. 30, more than three years later than planned, its testing office says the weapon manged by the Army has yet to ...

Stratolaunch’s prototype was designed with ... cost-effective solutions to the extreme heat encountered in hypersonic flight, during which friction can cause the leading edges of an aircraft ...