Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerospace company has unveiled a new hypersonic engine which it says makes a “major breakthrough” in high-speed flight. Venus ...
Key Points and Summary - Lockheed Martin’s SR-72 Son of Blackbird or “Darkstar” aims to replace the SR-71 with hypersonic ISR—and possibly strike—using a turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) that ...
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (NasdaqGS:KTOS) and GE Aerospace won a U.S. Air Force contract to design the next generation GEK1500 engine for small Collaborative Combat Aircraft. Kratos secured ...
US startup New Frontier Aerospace has found success in its series of tests of its hypersonic engine called "Mjölnir," based on the best-known hammer of the Norse mythology thunder god, Thor. This new ...
This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Danny Lewis: A few weeks back, in July, I took a trip north from Manhattan to ...
Venus Aerospace just took one giant leap toward hypersonic travel. The Houston-based startup successfully completed the first U.S. flight test of an exotic new type of engine, capable of enabling ...
In what may be a world first, Venus Aerospace has, for the first time in the US, successfully flown a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) that uses supersonic explosions to create thrust. Such ...
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (NasdaqGS:KTOS) recently secured multiple government and commercial contracts in hypersonic technologies, aerospace propulsion, and satellite ground systems. The ...
Hermeus is breaking ground on a new engine and flight test facility HEAT will accelerate US hypersonic development, offering increased testing cadence for not only Hermeus, but the DoD and larger ...
Hypersonic aircraft, meaning the ones capable of traveling at speeds of Mach 5 (3,836 mph / 6,173 kph), are the next big target of the aviation industry. Fueled by the evolution of the hypersonic ...
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has confirmed that it is developing the SR-72 spy plane. The successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, which was capable of Mach 3.5, the SR-72 will be a hypersonic unmanned ...