The idea behind “Rods From God” was surprisingly simple: place massive tungsten projectiles in orbit and drop them onto ...

The United States Army and Navy have announced that they jointly carried out a successful conventional hypersonic missile testing. The US Army's Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office ...

BARCELONA (AP) — Iran is boasting that it has hypersonic missiles and says it already has begun firing the cutting-edge weapons at Israel. There is no evidence that Iran has unleashed the missiles, ...

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s Tactical Technology Office published a Special Notice on ...

The race to bring hypersonic flight into the real world just took a leap forward with Venus Aerospace's successful test of a revolutionary engine. The Houston-based startup has developed a compact ...

The tricky bit about hypersonic missiles is getting them up to velocities above Mach 5 and keeping them there in a practical way. For example, the way that most hypersonic test vehicles operate is ...

A major focus in missile development of the 21st century has been hypersonic research. Hypersonic flight is achieved when an object surpasses Mach 5 (3,836 mph), and getting it right is the Holy Grail ...

Under the new phase of the effort, GE Aerospace will design and develop a combined booster and cruiser system that will form ...

MOJAVE, Calif., May 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Stratolaunch is pleased to announce the successful completion of its second hypersonic flight and recovery with the Talon-A2 (TA-2) fully autonomous vehicle ...

GE Aerospace will develop the Mach 5 Derecho hypersonic test vehicle under a new Pentagon HyCAT program contract.