Venus Aerospace, a Houston-based startup developing hypersonic propulsion technology, completed what it calls the first U.S. flight test of a next-generation rotating detonation rocket engine on May ...

Such an engine is 25% more efficient than a conventional engine, allowing it to be much more compact and lighter. It can also operate at subsonic speeds and the design allows it to modify itself so it ...

This aircraft could offer some impressive capabilities.

The rotating detonation ramjet engine provides a more compact, lightweight design than standard engine designs, and uses a continuous, self-sustaining detonation wave. GE Aerospace and Lockheed Martin ...

A Chinese lab tests a next-generation engine designed to push aircraft from takeoff to hypersonic speeds in one system.

The US Air Force is stomping on the accelerator to field advanced hypersonic missiles as the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Ursa Major announce the successful completion of a flight test of ...

Rocket Lab is targeting Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 3:00 p.m. EST for the launch of its HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) rocket from Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Flight Facility in ...

India achieved a major milestone in hypersonic missile technology after DRDO successfully conducted a 1,200-second ...

Rocket Lab launched a scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicle for the U.S. military to suborbital space on Friday (Feb. 27). The company's HASTE suborbital rocket lifted off Friday at 7 p.m. EST (0000 GMT ...

GE and Lockheed ground tested a new air-breathing hypersonic jet engine capable of powering missiles to speeds well in excess of Mach 5 in a smaller, cheaper, lighter, and more efficient package than ...