In FY-26, the Air Force would funnel about $802.8 million in HACM to continue RDT&E, according to the documents reviewed by Inside Defense.

Explore Starfighters Space, revolutionizing aerospace with F-104 Starfighters at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Launching payloads and conducting hypersonic ... from runaway vehicle in last-second ...

(Varda Space Industries ... the objects to Earth travel through a hypersonic environment, AFRL and NASA have partnered with the firm to use those vehicles as high-speed, reusable testbeds.

Northrop Grumman's navigation technology flew on Stratolaunch's Talon-A hypersonic glide vehicle, shown here ... really started from our lineage in space-based inertial navigation,” Green ...

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 Space Force Base in California.

Stratolaunch’s Roc took off with Talon-A1 tucked in its belly before the hypersonic vehicle conducted its own flight and landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base. A view of the gigantic Roc aircraft.

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 Space Force Base in California.

the Stratolaunch Talon-A hypersonic vehicle launched from the Roc carrier aircraft, flew over the Pacific Ocean and achieved speeds greater than Mach 5 before landing at Vandenberg Space Force ...

and creating a brand new type of space vehicle. It's called Supernova. It's described as the world's first multi-role space superiority platform. ARC Seattle's Holly Menino sat down with Thornburg ...

and aerodynamics for future hypersonic vehicles. Sandra Erwin writes about military space programs, policy, technology and the industry that supports this sector. She has covered the military ...

California-based space company Rocket Lab will launch more hypersonic test vehicles for the U.S. Military, as the Department of Defense (DOD) continues to invest in hypersonic technology.