Chinese researchers have published a new AI-driven system designed to interpret scramjet combustion simulations at speeds that could compress years of computational work into weeks. The tool, called ...

Hypersonic flight is no longer science fiction. In recent years, interest in aircraft capable of exceeding Mach 5 has surged, driven by strategic competition, defense challenges, and NASA’s pursuit of ...

China has tested a powerful engine that can carry weapons at remarkable speeds through both air and water. The novel engine achieved 90% efficiency in laboratory tests, which were conducted in ...

WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman opened the doors to a new hypersonics manufacturing facility, designed to meet U.S. Department of Defense needs for high-speed propulsion systems. The company broke ...

Today scramjet propulsion is the subject of continued study, as it appears to be one of the most promising methods of powering hypersonic weapons and aircraft. So, you may be surprised to learn that ...

An Australian-made hypersonic vehicle completed its first flight late on Feb. 27, propelled to Mach 5-plus speeds by a Rocket Lab HASTE rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia. The scramjet-powered, ...

The Pentagon said 3D printing can better allow hypersonic manufacturers to create scramjet components requiring complex shapes. The Air Force and DARPA's Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, or ...

The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine design that could potentially allow conventional.

The US Air Force said it was looking to launch its 14-foot long X-51A Waverider on its first hypersonic flight test attempt May 25. The unmanned X-51A is expected to fly autonomously for five minutes, ...

Alliant Techsystems, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) successfully ground-launched and flew a hypersonic scramjet-powered vehicle from the ...

As part of the Advanced technology initiative in the area of Air- Breathing propulsion, the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of ISRO at Thiruvananthapuram, has successfully carried out the design, ...