DARPA has confirmed the splash down of its unmanned Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV-2) following the hypersonic vehicle's second test flight on August 11. While a "controlled descent" ...

The second test of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) ended in the same fashion it predecessor did, crashing into the Pacific Ocean nine ...

DARPA launched the arrowhead-shaped HTV-2 flight on Aug. 11 in the second of two tests of a prototype for a hypersonic glider as part of the advanced Conventional Prompt Global Strike weapons program, ...

Aerodynamic design validated and new understanding of thermal material properties gained Following an extensive seven-month analysis of data collected from the Aug. 11, 2011, second flight of DARPA’s ...

If all goes well, the Pentagon this week will test an unmanned aircraft that, in theory, can travel at speeds upwards of 13,000 miles per hour and send a missile to strike an identified target within ...

The U.S. Defense Advance Research Project Agency provided more details about its aborted hypersonic mission Thursday after the craft lost contact with the agency and prematurely plunged into the ...

DARPA will launch the second flight test of an unmanned hypersonic glider Thursday (Aug. 11) to test technologies needed for a new global strike bomber concept designed to fly 20 times the speed of ...

The HTV-2 hypersonic test vehicle appears to have achieved controlled flight before telemetry contact was lost 9 min. after launch on April 22, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...