Images on Chinese social media appear to show a hypersonic test vehicle that is a likely prototype for a weapon system. The Jia Geng No. 1 rocket, allegedly built for hypersonic research, appears very ...

A Purdue University aerospace researcher helped shape plans to install a new experiment currently on the space shuttle Discovery to collect data for controlling deadly friction and heating in the ...

Doctoral student Max Chern takes a closer look at the wind tunnel setup where University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science researchers demonstrated that control of a dual-mode ...

Missile maker Raytheon has unveiled a new scramjet-powered weapon designed to minimize the reaction time of enemy air defenses. The unnamed weapon would travel at speeds in excess of Mach 5, or 3,800 ...

They call it a "scramjet," an engine so blindingly fast that it could carry an airplane from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., in about 20 minutes -- or even quicker. So fast it could put satellites ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - By using the only wind tunnel capable of running quietly at "hypersonic" speeds, Purdue University engineers have conducted experiments to yield critical data for designing an ...

It confirmed that scramjets can operate where rockets once had the field to themselves,” said Harry J. Kazianis, citing the technological hubris of NASA’s X-43A Hyper-X program. In 2004, the ...

Ramjet missiles, due to their use of abundant air, are the ideal propulsion system for high speed aircraft, missiles, and other objects. Nammo has finished tests of its new ramjet engine. Missiles and ...

Fielding an operational scramjet-powered cruise missile has emerged as a new priority for the U.S. Defense Department’s proliferating portfolio of maneuvering hypersonic weapons. Senior defense ...

Though it is still in the stage of wind-tunnel studies and drawing-board proposals, the much-heralded U.S. supersonic transport, which is scheduled to carry 150 passengers at speeds up to 1,900 m.p.h.