Key Points and Summary - NASA's X-43A, an unmanned scramjet testbed, set the world record for an air-breathing aircraft by hitting Mach 9.6 in 2004. -Launched from a B-52 and boosted by a Pegasus ...

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Just a couple of decades ago, aviation had some rules. If you wanted to fly fast within the atmosphere, you used a jet engine. The champion here was the SR-71 Blackbird, designed by Lockheed Martin, ...

Key Points and Summary - NASA Planned a Mach 15 X-43D. It Never Flew — and That Matters Now. -NASA’s X-43A proved that an air-breathing scramjet could fly at hypersonic speeds, reaching Mach 7 and ...

Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that its Hyper-X Launch Vehicle was successfully launched on Saturday, March 27 in a flight test that originated from NASA’s Dryden Flight ...

Hitting a target with a missile anywhere in the world in less than an hour – that’s the Pentagon’s goal with its ongoing development of hypersonic weapons. Moving from the experimental phase to ...

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 ...

A live AGM-183 Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon was photographed on a B-52H currently stationed at Andersen AFB for a Bomber Task Force deployment. The U.S. Air Force just published some really ...

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Yet the notion of a business jet operating at Mach 5 remained a sci-fi fantasy. That is, until recent advances in design and technology have brought the concept closer to a workable reality. “We’re ...

The Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) regards the ground test of an active cooled scramjet combustor as being a milestone in its development of next-generation hypersonic missiles. (Defence Research ...