One of the key military innovations of the 21st century is the development of hypersonic missiles. Leading nations are hard at work developing the technology to move missiles five times faster ...

The influential venture capitalist Katherine Boyle is making the case that creating things for America—from weapons to ...

Venus Aerospace just took one giant leap toward hypersonic travel. The Houston-based startup successfully completed the first U.S. flight test of an exotic new type of engine, capable of enabling ...

or we will unleash hell on Ukrainian cities—and NATO’s air defense systems cannot protect against this. Should Russia decide to go all-out with the Oreshnik and other hypersonic weapons ...

In the future, those flights might be a lot shorter if hypersonic travel becomes a reality. Tests by private company Stratolaunch suggest that the possibility is certainly there. Stratolaunch ...

In 2021, The Financial Times cited US military intelligence claiming China tested two hypersonic weapons released from near-Earth orbit, but some military experts called the orbital bombardment ...

Twice in the past five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated it to more than five times the speed of sound, and autonomously landed at Vandenberg ...

A California-based startup pulled off two hypersonic flights of its reusable aircraft, which became the first fully autonomous drone to reach Mach 5 speeds. Stratolaunch’s Talon-A2 completed a ...

Twice in the last five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated it to more than five times the speed of sound, and autonomously landed at Vandenberg ...

The United States has actively pursued the development of hypersonic weapons—maneuvering weapons that fly at speeds of at least Mach 5—as a part of its conventional prompt global strike ...

Stratolaunch completed the second hypersonic flight and recovery with the Talon-A2 fully autonomous vehicle. Credit: Stratolaunch WASHINGTON — The U.S. is re-entering the era of reusable ...