North American Aviation’s X-15 rocket plane reached 4,520 mph and climbed to 354,200 feet during a program that ran from 1959 ...

An aircraft running on hydrogen that races through the upper atmosphere at speeds exceeding twelve times the speed of sound might seem like a fantasy reserved exclusively for science fiction. That, ...

Hypersonix's hypersonic scramjet has booked its first flight window, with the Australian aerospace startup on Friday confirming a launch will happen “no later than the end of February” at a Rocket Lab ...

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 conventional.

Hypersonix is executing test flights that will demonstrate sustained hypersonic flight powered by hydrogen Australian ...

Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced its next launch is a dedicated mission on its HASTE rocket ...

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has confirmed that it is developing the SR-72 spy plane. The successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, which was capable of Mach 3.5, the SR-72 will be a hypersonic unmanned ...

Hypersonix Launch Systems has scheduled a late February launch window for a test flight of its scramjet-powered hypersonic aircraft, DART AE.

Queensland-based Hypersonix Launch Systems has announced the successful completion of vibration testing on its ...

Alliant Techsystems, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) successfully ground-launched and flew a hypersonic scramjet-powered vehicle from the ...

At Mach 6, the SR-72 can cut across radar fields of view so quickly that establishing a continuous track becomes nearly impossible. The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot ...