privately owned and operated RLV systems. The team’s submission, whose total potential value was not disclosed, includes proposals for RLV architecture systems engineering and several important ...

The secretive SR-72 “Darkstar” is Lockheed Martin’s ambitious project to build a Mach 6+ hypersonic ISR and strike aircraft. -Its success hinges on a revolutionary and highly classified Turbine-Based ...

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More than 14 years have passed since the first X-51A WaveRider—powered by a supersonic combustion ramjet (scramjet) engine built by Aerojet Rocketdyne, now a part of L3Harris Technologies—made ...

The scramjet-powered Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept test met all primary and secondary objectives, including tactical range capabilities. "The test demonstrated how we've rapidly matured ...

The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved funding for research on new technology that could one day allow planes to travel anywhere in the world within two hours. The $25 million research ...

What You Need to Know: The Lockheed L-301, also known as the X-24C, was an ambitious experimental hypersonic aircraft project in the 1970s that aimed to build upon the advancements of the X-15 and ...

A jet engine is any engine that can propel an aircraft of some kind via rearward expulsion of a jet of fluid, typically a hot exhaust gas that the engine generates by drawing in fuel from the ...

At the PARI Hypersonics Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center (HAMTC), from left: Nate Humbert, lead additive manufacturing engineer, GE Additive; Will DeVerter, aeronautics and astronautics ...

An Australian hypersonic scramjet technology demonstrator is expected to be launched from the Andøya Rocket Range in Norway as early as Sept. 17. The Scramspace (Scramjet-based Access-to-Space Systems ...

Just a couple of decades ago, aviation had some rules. If you wanted to fly fast within the atmosphere, you used a jet engine. The champion here was the SR-71 Blackbird, designed by Lockheed Martin, ...

Australian company Hypersonix Launch Systems is not only looking to make the delivery of satellites into orbit cheaper and more accessible, but also greener. It is developing a reusable launch system ...