UDRI researchers design, analyze, develop, and test hypersonic materials, components, and systems for commercial and military customers. We develop specialized computational methods to address ...

“The W-3 mission will provide unprecedented data to advance next-generation space and defense capabilities and continue to provide hypersonic environments to the reentry test community,” Dave ...

Hypersonic weapons are capable of changing trajectory mid-flight, making them extremely difficult to intercept. While fielding sixth-generation technology and platforms is all the buzz as of late ...

America returns to reusable hypersonic flight testing since the glory days of the X-15. Stratolaunch released a new video documenting the completion of its second hypersonic flight and full ...

Witness the impressive flight of hypersonic paper planes in this exciting test. Pope Leo XIV's voting history sparks speculation on political affiliation I build PCs for a living – here are the ...

Welcome to Edition 7.43 of the Rocket Report! There's been a lot of recent news in hypersonic testing. We cover some of that in this week's newsletter, which is just a taste of the US military's ...

Hypersonic vehicles have become the latest military prestige technology, and the US seems to be lagging its rivals. That could change after the successful flight of an autonomous and reusable ...

Northrop Grumman's navigation technology flew on Stratolaunch's Talon-A hypersonic glide vehicle, shown here, in two recent tests. (Stratolaunch) Two recent groundbreaking hypersonic test flights ...

In 2021, The Financial Times cited US military intelligence claiming China tested two hypersonic weapons released from near-Earth orbit, but some military experts called the orbital bombardment ...

The United States has completed two successful test flights of a new reusable hypersonic aircraft capable of travelling at five times the speed of sound. The Mach 5-tech development sees the US ...

Twice in the past five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated it to more than five times the speed of sound, and autonomously landed at Vandenberg ...

The Stratolaunch Talon-A2 hypersonic drone successfully surpassed Mach 5 in back-to-back tests, the U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed. The reusable autonomous drone first exceeded Mach 5, the ...