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Better known for building and flying lightweight small and medium orbital launchers, Rocket Lab is branching out. The company has announced the successful full launch of its Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) launch vehicle, which … Continue reading Rocket Lab launches hypersonic boost vehicle
NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator full-scale single-aisle research plane designed to explore net-zero aviation emissions and faster, more economical passenger flight near the speed of sound has been named the X-66A by the US Air Force.Continue Rea… Continue reading NASA’s X-66A transonic plane doesn’t have a perfect wing, but it tries
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has taken the wraps off “Sky Sonic,” its advanced system for intercepting hostile hypersonic missiles traveling five times the speed of sound that will make its public debut at next week’s Paris Air Show.Continue Reading… Continue reading Israel’s Rafael shows off home-grown hypersonic missile interceptor
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has announced that the world’s fastest hypersonic wind tunnel is up and running, a detonation-driven shock tunnel that’ll allow aerodynamic testing for aircraft, spacecraft and missiles at air speeds up to Mach 30…. Continue reading China’s record-breaking Mach 30 wind tunnel harnesses timed explosions
California startup Varda has celebrated the deployment of its first satellite, a test run of a fascinating space-based pharmaceuticals factory that moonlights as a hypersonic test rig during its Mach 25 re-entry to keep costs down.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading World’s first space factory, now in orbit, is also a hypersonic test bed
California aerospace company Stratolaunch has taken a major step closer to the realization of its planned hypersonic flight launch system. Last weekend, the firm successfully released the TA-0 test vehicle from its Roc carrier aircraft.Continue Reading… Continue reading Stratolaunch successfully releases test vehicle ahead of hypersonic flights
The options for a practical hypersonic missile for the US have narrowed to one after Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Andrew P. Hunter told the House Armed Services Committee that the Department of Defense is cancelling Lockheed Martin’s ARRW (AGM-… Continue reading Lockheed Martin ARRW knocked out of US hypersonic missile race
In testimony before Congress, a Pentagon scientist laid out the threat of Beijing’s hypersonic weapons. Continue reading China Has Better Hypersonic Missiles Than Russia and Can Strike U.S. Bases, Official Says
Moscow launched a barrage of missiles at Ukraine on Thursday, which included some of its advanced hypersonic missiles. Continue reading Russia Has Launched a Barrage Of Its ‘Invincible’ Hypersonic Missiles Into Ukraine
Lockheed Martin has secured a contract worth a potential US$2 billion to install Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) hypersonic missile launchers on the US Navy’s three Zumwalt-class destroyers by the middle of the decade.Continue ReadingCategory: Militar… Continue reading US Zumwalt destroyers first to get hypersonic missiles under new deal