An artist's rendering of Kratos' Erinyes hypersonic test bed, which took its first flight in June 2024 ... detect advanced threats — to catch their first tracks of a hypersonic vehicle. While MDA did ...

The test vehicle reached Mach 5 in its first test flight. Erinyes is being developed ... President of Kratos’ Defense and Rocket Support Systems (DRSS) Division. “Following this success ...

Federal regulators have given SpaceX the green light for another test flight of Starship ... such as life support systems. SpaceX must also hash out how to refuel the vehicle as it sits in ...

Despite the short test flight, Isar Aerospace said that it successfully completed the first test flight of its orbital launch vehicle by launching ... but still support the journalists who create ...

Hermeus is feeding data from the first flight into its second test vehicle, Mk 2 ... which aims to increase flight test support for Pentagon programs. Piplica previously told Defense News he ...

SpaceX conducted the seventh flight test of its Starship launch vehicle on Thursday ... than other launch vehicles and can support long-duration missions to the Moon and potentially Mars.

During the eighth flight test, mission operators plan ... a crucial maneuver to one day bring a vehicle back to the ground. About 400 newly-hired support staff employees at the Federal Aviation ...

The inaugural test launch of a Starship and Super Heavy — called an integrated test flight — took off in April 2023. That launch aimed solely to get the 397-foot (121-meter) vehicle off the ...

The catch maneuver will be attempted again in the sixth test flight on Monday. Eric Gay/AP Photo The upcoming Starship test is designed to expand the ... space missions, support satellite launches ...

Trump's support for Musk and Starship ... which protects the vehicle during reentry to Earth's atmosphere. "The flight test will assess new secondary thermal protection materials and will have ...

SpaceX's Starship, currently the world's most powerful launch vehicle at 403 feet tall, further expands the company's technological edge. The next Starship test flight, today, will include a ...

SpaceX lost contact again in its latest test flight of the Starship and Super ... the upper stage,” SpaceX posted on its website. To support an increased pace of launches in the coming years ...