The legendary SR-71 is getting a hypersonic, unmanned successor: the SR-72 “Son of Blackbird,” capable of Mach 6 speeds ...

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

Decades before hypersonics entered today's headlines, NASA drafted an aircraft that bordered on surreal. Discover the story ...

As organizations worldwide strive to innovate next-generation defense solutions, hypersonic technology has emerged as one of the most advanced and sought-after defense technologies, particularly in ...

Just a couple of decades ago, aviation had some rules. If you wanted to fly fast within the atmosphere, you used a jet engine. The champion here was the SR-71 Blackbird, designed by Lockheed Martin, ...

Hitting a target with a missile anywhere in the world in less than an hour – that’s the Pentagon’s goal with its ongoing development of hypersonic weapons. Moving from the experimental phase to ...

In recent years, the rapid development and adoption of hypersonic technology across industries, from aerospace and defense to space exploration, have opened new growth avenues for Rocket Lab USA RKLB, ...

China is fast-tracking potential space-travel technology designed to simulate speeds of Mach 30, a paradigm changing velocity more than five times the speed of the hypersonic threshold considered to ...

Hypersonic vehicles — aircraft that can reach speeds of Mach 5 and beyond — are subject to extreme conditions while they are in flight, requiring strong yet aerodynamic materials to keep them both in ...

The Air Force is resurrecting its boost-glide missile program—an effort first launched to much fanfare in August 2018, only to see mixed results in testing and ultimately lose support from service ...