A major player in aerospace innovation has bitten the dust. Reaction Engines, a developer of hypersonic engine technology since 1989, has gone into administration and its closure is having an impact ...

The latest and final flight of the hypersonic missile built by Lockheed Martin was an end-to-end flight test. The Air Force has not said whether the test was successful or what its objectives were, ...

Hypersonic missiles travel at speeds of at least Mach 5, which is about 3,800 mph or nearly 1 mile per second. The science behind how hypersonic weapons work is fascinating, just like their capacity ...

Boeing has unveiled a new concept called the 'Revolver' launch system, designed to launch multiple hypersonic missiles from the back of a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. This advanced launcher features ...

Speed is paramount in designing missiles, so engineers have worked for years to improve how fast a missile can fly. The goal is to strike a target without warning, so the faster an object, the harder ...

The European Space Agency is throwing its weight behind a design effort for a hypersonic spaceplane, with hopes of getting the final idea airborne (and spaceborne) by 2031. The ESA is putting up ...

WASHINGTON — The Army dubbed its new hypersonic missile the “Dark Eagle,” paying tribute to a U.S. national symbol, as the developing system nears the end of testing. The land-based, truck-launched ...

Hypersonic weapons are capable of changing trajectory mid-flight, making them extremely difficult to intercept. While fielding sixth-generation technology and platforms is all the buzz as of late, a ...

DRDO is set to flight-test the Dhvani hypersonic missile by end of 2025. It will fly over Mach 6 with a range of up to 10,000 km.

The United States successfully conducted a hypersonic missile defense test near Hawaii on Monday as Washington's adversaries are racing to field this type of superfast weapon. Newsweek reached out to ...