Hypersonic aircraft promise to compress distance and time in ways that make even the fastest supersonic jets look dated, yet ...

The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Technical Center’s Aerophysics Research Facility, or ARF, fired a successful ...

The test conducted by the Aerophysics Research Facility (ARF) on December 11 involved a high-velocity launch using one of the ...

A team of engineers at Sandia National Labs is developing new materials to evaluate thermal protection for hypersonic ...

May 5 (UPI) --Stratolaunch successfully tested for the second time a fully recoverable uncrewed hypersonic vehicle for the Department of Defense in March, the private contractor and federal agency ...

The Department of Defense (DoD) on Friday revealed that the missile launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on April 25 successfully demonstrated an end-to-end hypersonic flight ...

Hypersonic weapons are in the spotlight. Here’s how they work, why they matter, and what current programs in Russia, China, ...

From the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 to the now-routine return of commercial spacecraft, heat shields—formally called thermal protection systems—are critical for protecting ...

An important part of data collection for the United States space program, the North American X-15 had astonishing performance ...

Stratolaunch announced it has been awarded a contract for five hypersonic flight tests for the U.S. Navy’s Multiservice Advanced Capability Test Bed (MACH-TB). The contract was awarded by MACH-TB ...

Europe is moving toward a decisive moment in its effort to build a homegrown shield against hypersonic missiles.