NASA built an X-42A hydrogen-powered scramjet to reach speeds of Mach 9.6 for a brief moment in 2004. Therefore, this new ...

An aerospace company has unveiled a new hypersonic engine which it says makes a “major breakthrough” in high-speed flight. Venus Aerospace, a Texas-based company focused on making hypersonic travel a ...

Hypersonic missiles wouldn’t exist without one key piece of tech – the SCRAMJET engine. In this video, we break down how ...

The race to bring hypersonic flight into the real world just took a leap forward with Venus Aerospace's successful test of a revolutionary engine. The Houston-based startup has developed a compact ...

Britain has successfully tested of a new engine for hypersonic missiles in a crucial step forward for the UK’s defence capabilities in light of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. The critical research ...

Decades before hypersonics entered today's headlines, NASA drafted an aircraft that bordered on surreal. Discover the story ...

HOUSTON, April 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Venus Aerospace, the startup building the world's most advanced engine system for hypersonic flight, today announced the successful completion of a ...

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 ...

An important part of data collection for the United States space program, the North American X-15 had astonishing performance ...

Hypersonic weapons are in the spotlight. Here’s how they work, why they matter, and what current programs in Russia, China, ...

Insolvency specialists handling the administration of UK firm Reaction Engines appear to be slowly closing in on the sale of ...

Only three of these aircraft were built, with one being destroyed and two operating successfully. The X-43 testbed aircraft ...