Hypersonic aircraft promise to compress distance and time in ways that make even the fastest supersonic jets look dated, yet the United States Air Force is discovering that flying at several times the ...

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in 2025 conducted high-speed, supersonic, and hypersonic aircraft tests, supporting aeronautics, air mobility, and Earth observation through experimental flights ...

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center advanced multi-mission flight research in 2025, including supersonic testing, ...

Hypersonic flight has long been a military obsession, but the idea of a sitting United States president crossing oceans at ...

Modern naval forces are increasingly challenged by the limits of traditional missile defense. Ship-based interceptors and ...

Supersonic flight refers to aircraft travelling faster than the speed of sound, approximately Mach one at sea level, or ...

After World War II, as early supersonic military aircraft were pushing the boundaries of flight, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that commercial aircraft would eventually fly faster than sound as ...

Operating out of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida alongside major players like SpaceX and Blue Origin , Starfighters owns and operates the world's largest commercial supersonic aircraft fleet, a ...

Supersonic combustion and scramjet engine dynamics represent a frontier in aerospace propulsion, offering a pathway to ultra‐high-speed flight through the efficient combustion of fuel in a supersonic ...

Could a hypersonic vehicle take flight this weekend in the deserts of Southeastern California? It appears Stratolaunch, an aerospace company based in Mojave about 100 miles north of Los Angeles, is ...

Captive carry flights mark critical milestone in advancing solid fuel ramjet technology KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Sept. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- GE Aerospace today announced the successful ...