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A US-based space startup raised $6 million to develop a maglev space ramp that will require almost no fuel to fire rockets to ...
While U.S.-based companies are launching more payloads into orbit than ever before, they’re still limited by the inefficiency ...
A bankrupt company’s air-cooled propulsion system for hypersonic planes is being revived by Invictus, a new European Space Agency (ESA)-backed project aiming to build and fly a hydrogen-powered ...
The U.S. Air Force announced last Thursday that it's suspending plans for testing hypersonic rocket delivery systems on a ...
The North American Aviation X-15 was a revolutionary aircraft that forever changed the landscape of aviation and space ...
Canada doesn't have a long history of rocket launches, but that may be about to change.
NASA’s X-43A was a small, unmanned experimental aircraft that, in 2004, shattered world records by flying at nearly Mach 10 (almost 7,000 mph), becoming the fastest air-breathing vehicle in history.
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China has denied a report that it tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August, saying on Monday that the test was instead a “routine spacecraft experiment.” CNN values your feedback 1.
China conducted a test launch of a hypersonic vehicle in August 2021 using a Long March rocket, according to an Oct. 17, 2021, report in The Financial Times.
China is developing a space plane that’ll go from runway to orbit and back down again at hypersonic speeds, reports Popular Science.When it is completed, the hypersonic space plane will boost ...
Mitch Wall is studying atmospheric conditions at the threshold of space to improve future hypersonic vehicles and spacecraft. An aerospace PhD student and Smead Scholar at the University of Colorado ...