The Defense Innovation Unit achieved a successful suborbital launch of a hypersonic test platform that demonstrated sustained ...

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and its partners have completed a suborbital launch of a fully integrated hypersonic test ...

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At that point, the scramjet inlet opened, hydrogen flowed through, and combustion stabilized in a supersonic flow. March’s flight employed an 11-second burn at Mach 6.8; November’s flight ventured ...

An Indian government defence laboratory has successfully tested a scramjet as part of efforts to develop hypersonic missiles. The Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL) conducted the 120s ...

minister’s efforts to move as quickly as possible on the investigation into flight anomalies of the October 30 rocket launch at Woomera. This investigation effectively means a second rocket launch ...

Liftoff of the "That's Not a Knife" suborbital mission occurred at 7 p.m. ET on Friday (Feb. 27). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

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 ...

NASA’s second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft flew successfully today, the first time an airbreathing scramjet powered aircraft has flown freely. The unpiloted vehicle’s supersonic combustion ...

Supersonic combustion and scramjet engine dynamics represent a frontier in aerospace propulsion, offering a pathway to ultra‐high-speed flight through the efficient combustion of fuel in a supersonic ...

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India's DRDL said it conducted long-duration active cooled scramjet subscale combustor ground testing for more than 1,000 seconds on 25 April. (DRDO) Months after it test-fired an active cooled ...