Key Points and Summary - Lockheed Martin’s SR-72 Son of Blackbird or “Darkstar” aims to replace the SR-71 with hypersonic ISR—and possibly strike—using a turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) that ...

An aircraft running on hydrogen that races through the upper atmosphere at speeds exceeding twelve times the speed of sound might seem like a fantasy reserved exclusively for science fiction. That, ...

Venus Aerospace just took one giant leap toward hypersonic travel. The Houston-based startup successfully completed the first U.S. flight test of an exotic new type of engine, capable of enabling ...

BROOKLYN, NY, UNITED STATES, May 28, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Latimer Aerospace, a Brooklyn-based startup founded in 2023, emerges from stealth mode with the Omni ...

February 13 2025, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced its secretive Aerospace Projects Office (APO) is developing a large hypersonic bomber prototype as part of the Next ...

In what may be a world first, Venus Aerospace has, for the first time in the US, successfully flown a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) that uses supersonic explosions to create thrust. Such ...

Australia’s reusable hypersonic engine program could have ramifications well beyond the military sector. Australia continues breaking new ground with its hypersonic weapons program. This time, ...

Stratolaunch has finally found a use for the world’s largest airplane. Twice in the last five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated it to more than five ...

For years, the United States has trailed behind Russia and China in hypersonic weapons. A new engine prototype by Lockheed Martin and General Electric could help it catch up. The United States is ...

NAPLES, Italy — American and British researchers recently completed hundreds of successful tests of an engine capable of propelling a cruise missile at hypersonic speed, demonstrating what officials ...