The US Army has formally advanced the Blackbeard Ground Launch (GL) hypersonic strike missile into the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase, allocating $25 million in the FY2026 ...

The U.S. Air Force announced last Thursday that it's suspending plans for testing hypersonic rocket delivery systems on a ...

The U.S. Air Force has decided to terminate a project in collaboration with Elon Musk ‘s SpaceX. The project was intended to ...

Stratolaunch completed two flights of its autonomous Talon-A2 rocket plane earlier this year, as the US aims to gain ground in its race for hypersonic supremacy with China.

The North American Aviation X-15 was a revolutionary aircraft that forever changed the landscape of aviation and space ...

The rocket carried 11 different experiments designed to test and collect data for hypersonic weapons research to support the joint Army-Navy program, the Navy said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Air Force has suspended plans it had proposed with Elon Musk's SpaceX to test hypersonic ...

Stratolaunch resurrects its hypersonic rocket vehicle under a new name: Talon-A. by Alan Boyle on March 30, 2020 at 6:10 am March 30, 2020 at 7:40 am. Share 408 Tweet Share Reddit Email.

The U.S. Navy conducted a successful test of the Second Stage Solid Rocket Motor on Wednesday in Promontory, Utah, which is part of the development of hypersonic weapons for both the Army and Navy.

The first phase involves a reuseable hypersonic rocket plane with an expendable upper stage rocket. In September 2016, CASC had also announced plans for a vertical-takeoff, rocket-powered ...