A recent assessment by the US Defense Intelligence Agency paints a grim picture for the Americans. The threats from China and ...

Stratolaunch Systems has gone hypersonic — twice. Stratolaunch took its uncrewed Talon-A2 prototype to hypersonic speeds for the first time this past December, then repeated the feat in March ...

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 ...

Japan plans to test its rail gun, which uses electricity to fire projectiles, aiming to enhance its defense against Chinese and North Korean hypersonic missiles, according to local media.

“The W-3 mission will provide unprecedented data to advance next-generation space and defense capabilities and continue to provide hypersonic environments to the reentry test community,” Dave ...

Described as one of the world’s largest guns, the BAM Range uses a rail system to launch projectiles at hypersonic speeds, faster than the blink of an eye. “Researchers from around the country ...

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 ...