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

Thermal protection systems, commonly known as heat shields, play a vital role in safeguarding spacecraft and high-speed ...

California-based space company Rocket Lab will launch more hypersonic test vehicles for the U.S. Military, as the Department of Defense (DOD) continues to invest in hypersonic technology. Rocket Lab ...

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

Northrop Grumman's navigation technology flew on Stratolaunch's Talon-A hypersonic glide vehicle, shown here, in two recent tests. (Stratolaunch) Two recent groundbreaking hypersonic test flights ...

A team of engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed ways to rapidly evaluate new thermal protection materials ...

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

How do you protect hypersonic vehicles from the high temperatures of over 2,200 °C (4,000 °F) encountered when flying in excess of Mach 5? According to the RTX Technology Research Center, the answer ...

This was not just creative license taken by a Hollywood production team. Apollo 13’s communication blackout was more than a minute longer than expected, which added to the suspense, but even routine ...