Decades before the rumored SR-72 “Darkstar,” America had already conquered hypersonic flight with the X-15 rocket plane. -In ...

BRITAIN is leading plans to build a hypersonic plane that could fly on the edge of space and travel from London to New York ...

The hypersonic vehicle, known as The Sabre, is designed to reach speeds of Mach 5 (approximately 4,000 mph). Spearheaded by ...

The Invictus project is leveraging tech that the now-defunct British company Reaction Engines developed for a huge space plane called Skylon.

NASA’s supersonic “Son of Concorde” plane which will halve the travel time between London and New York is zooming ever closer ...

ESA is backing a new project called Invictus that aims to develop and launch a hydrogen-powered spaceplane by 2031.

Proving that you can't keep a good technology down, Reaction Engines' Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) has a new lease on life after a British-led consortium announced Invictus, a new ...

A panel of House of Representatives lawmakers have endorsed a DARPA plan to fly a reusable hypersonic aircraft demonstrator for reconnaissance and strike missions. DARPA plans to launch development in ...

The British-led consortium has announced Invictus, a program to build a Mach 5+ spaceplane using Reaction Engines' SABRE technology.

In a paper published in Acta Astronautica, the researchers demonstrated how origami may be the solution to low Earth orbit’s ...

A British-led aerospace consortium has unveiled a bold new programme to develop a Mach 5-capable reusable aircraft, targeting ...