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Mach 9.6 in Seconds: The Scramjet Leap That Stopped Short

Breaking Mach 9.6 with an air-breathing engine wasn’t just a speed stunt. It confirmed that scramjets can operate where rockets once had the field to themselves,” said Harry J. Kazianis, citing the ...
National Security Journal on MSN

NASA’s X-43A Scramjet Almost Hit Mach 10 But Got the Hypersonic ‘Axe’

A’s Legacy Go Operational? -In 2004, NASA’s X-43A set the air-breathing speed record at Mach 9.6, validating scramjet combustion but only for 10 seconds before gliding to splashdown. -The demo ended ...
El Adelantado de Segovia

Confirmed by NASA – X-43A became the world’s fastest atmospheric combustion-engine air vehicle

Can you imagine flying from New York to Los Angeles in less than 15 minutes? Although it seems incredible, there is an aircraft capable of this feat: meet ...
Aerospace Manufacturing and Design

Why hypersonics is hard

At NASA Glenn Research Center’s recent Aero Dayz open house, Dr. Robert Baurle, senior scientist for Hypersonics in the ...
SpaceNews

Former U.S. defense officials urge Pentagon to scale up hypersonic weapons to match China, Russia

WASHINGTON — A group of former senior U.S. defense officials is urging the Pentagon to dramatically expand investment in ...
New Atlas

GE Aerospace flies hypersonic engine with no moving parts

The answer is the recently flight-tested Atmospheric Test of Launched Airbreathing System (ATLAS) powered by a new solid-fueled ramjet built by GE Aerospace. Hypersonic missiles capable of flying well ...

Russia touts test launch of hypersonic missile on Putin's birthday

Russia has test launched its Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile and successfully hit a target in the Barents Sea, a senior commander told Vladimir Putin on the Russian leader's 68th birthday on ...
Flightglobal

Hypersonic start-up Hermeus reveals assembly progress on supersonic Quarterhorse Mk 2 test aircraft

Hypersonic fight start-up Hermeus is advancing production of its first supersonic-capable aircraft. The company has released images of the Quarterhorse Mk 2 prototype progressing through assembly, ...
Flightglobal

Ursa Major wins $35 million contract for developmental Draper engines from undisclosed defence customer

Colorado-based engine maker Ursa Major has secured an order for its developmental Draper rocket powerplant. The propulsion start-up on 17 September said it had received a $35 million contract from an ...
Foreign Policy

China and Russia Are Winning the Hypersonic Missile Race

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Wired

Russia Tests Hypersonic Missile at NATO’s Doorstep—and Shares the Video

On Sunday, Russia released images of its launch of a 3M22 Zircon hypersonic missile from a frigate in the Barents Sea, in the Arctic Ocean, near NATO borders. The launch comes against a backdrop of ...
Reuters

Russia flexes military muscle with hypersonic missiles and bombers during drills

MOSCOW, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Russia said on Sunday that it had fired a Zircon (Tsirkon) hypersonic cruise missile at a target in the Barents Sea and that Sukoi Su-34 supersonic fighter-bombers had ...