Hypersonic flight has long been a military obsession, but the idea of a sitting United States president crossing oceans at ...

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in 2025 conducted high-speed, supersonic, and hypersonic aircraft tests, supporting aeronautics, air mobility, and Earth observation through experimental flights ...

China is fast-tracking potential space-travel technology designed to simulate speeds of Mach 30, a paradigm changing velocity more than five times the speed of the hypersonic threshold considered to ...

Could a hypersonic vehicle take flight this weekend in the deserts of Southeastern California? It appears Stratolaunch, an aerospace company based in Mojave about 100 miles north of Los Angeles, is ...

Hypersonic weapons are reshaping modern military competitions. As the U.S. advances its capabilities, understanding the ...

From the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 to the now-routine return of commercial spacecraft, heat shields—formally called thermal protection systems—are critical for protecting ...

Transpiration cooling has emerged as a promising thermal protection strategy for hypersonic vehicles, which are exposed to extreme aerodynamic heating during high‐speed flight. This method utilises a ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. KENT, Wash., Aug. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- New Frontier Aerospace (NFA) is excited to announce a Collaborative Research ...