The Defense Innovation Unit achieved a successful suborbital launch of a hypersonic test platform that demonstrated sustained ...

A recent flight test of a prototype of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept set an endurance record for scramjet engines, the head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency told ...

A scramjet engine made by Northrop Grumman set a record for the highest thrust produced by an air-breathing hypersonic engine in US Air Force history. Ground tests of the 5.5m (18ft)-long engine were ...

Hypersonix has completed the first successful test flight of its scramjet aircraft DART AE, in what the company calls “a ...

WOOMERA, Australia, July 31 (UPI) -- An international aerospace research consortium achieved a milestone in aviation Tuesday with the first-ever successful test flight of a new type of jet engine ...

China has revealed the first known images of an indigenous scramjet test that it says was successfully conducted at speeds up to Mach 7 and altitudes up to 30 km, in December 2015. Credit: National ...

It will be launched on board the RH-560 sounding rocket. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The countdown to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s Scramjet engine test launch is set to begin tonight. It will ...

According to the U.S. Air Force, the flight test for the experimental X-51A WaveRider plane which could potentially travel up to 4500mph has resulted in failure. As previously reported on SmartPlanet, ...

The Pentagon took another step toward speeding up hypersonic testing. The Defense Innovation Unit ...