Articles about Hypersonic flight

New Frontier Aerospace tests 3D-printed rocket engine for future flight applications

Kent, Wash.-based New Frontier Aerospace says it has put its 3D-printed Mjölnir rocket engine through a series of successful hot-fire tests,… Read More

Illustration: R3V making a fiery re-entry from space

Radian Aerospace lays out its plan to create reusable re-entry vehicle for hypersonic tests

Seattle-based Radian Aerospace says it’s developing a reusable re-entry vehicle that can be used to test aerospace components under stressful… Read More

Stratolaunch carrier airplane releases TA-1 test vehicle

Stratolaunch’s air-launched test vehicle goes supersonic in its first powered flight

Chalk up another milestone for Stratolaunch, the air-launch venture created by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen: The company’s mammoth… Read More

David Gregory and Bill Bruner at New Frontier Aerospace HQ

New Frontier Aerospace aims to zoom from hypersonic flight’s past into its future

TUKWILA, Wash. — Thirty years after the first flight of a pioneering reusable rocket ship known as the Delta Clipper… Read More

We have separation: Stratolaunch reaches milestone with release of test payload

California-based Stratolaunch, the venture created by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, released a separation test vehicle for the first… Read More

Air Force Research Lab agrees to support Stratolaunch’s first hypersonic flight test

Stratolaunch, the company created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen more than a decade ago, says it’s won a contract from… Read More

Stratolaunch flies mammoth airplane with separation test vehicle hooked onto it

Stratolaunch — the air-launch company founded by the late Seattle software billionaire Paul Allen — put a test version of… Read More

Stratolaunch ascends to new heights with successful test of world’s biggest airplane

Stratolaunch says its mammoth carrier airplane rose to its highest altitude yet during its seventh flight test over California’s Mojave… Read More

Stratolaunch lands its mammoth airplane early after a flight test that didn’t meet all of its objectives

Stratolaunch says the sixth flight test of its super-sized Roc carrier airplane ended earlier than planned when the team ran… Read More

Stratolaunch celebrates Star Wars Day with fifth flight of its giant airplane, featuring a new pylon

Stratolaunch took the “fifth” on May the 4th, otherwise known as Star Wars Day. Today brought the fifth flight test… Read More

World’s widest airplane flexes its landing gear during Stratolaunch’s fourth test flight

Stratolaunch, the air-launch venture created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen a decade ago, successfully conducted a full test of the… Read More

Stratolaunch’s huge airplane aces its third flight test, building on Paul Allen’s legacy

The mammoth airplane that got its start with backing from the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen took to the air… Read More

Karman Systems acquires Systima to target hypersonic and space technology

Mukilteo, Wash.-based Systima Technologies has been acquired by Karman Missile & Space Systems as part of Karman’s push into the… Read More

Stratolaunch teams up with Calspan and makes progress on hypersonic flight plan

Stratolaunch, the aerospace company founded by the late Seattle tech titan Paul Allen, is gearing up on several fronts for… Read More

HyperSciences pushes ahead to next stage of blaster technology (and fundraising)

HyperSciences has raised more than $9 million for its hypersonic blaster technology using an unusual crowdfunding model, but now it’s… Read More

Stratolaunch resurrects its hypersonic rocket vehicle under a new name: Talon-A

Now that it’s under new management, Stratolaunch is retooling a concept for a rocket-powered hypersonic vehicle that it first unveiled… Read More

Systima expands facilities and workforce for hypersonic and weapon systems development

Kirkland, Wash.-based Systima Technologies is taking on more employees and real estate to work on Defense Department contracts related to… Read More

Farewell, Phantom Express: Boeing is pulling out of DARPA space plane program

The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says Boeing is dropping out of its Experimental Spaceplane Program immediately, grounding the… Read More

After ownership change, Stratolaunch confirms that it’s still working on hypersonic vehicles

It’s been three months since ownership of the Stratolaunch space venture was transferred from the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen’s… Read More

Hermeus wins seed funding for hypersonic aircraft, with former Blue Origin president as adviser

Atlanta-based Hermeus Corp. says it’s won some high-profile seed funding for its effort to develop aircraft capable of flying more… Read More

With a boost from Shell, HyperSciences blasts past $3M in crowdfunding campaign

HyperSciences’ hypersonic blaster technology can be used to send projectiles up into the air, or down into rock — either way,… Read More

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems lays out a roadmap for hypersonic rocket planes

Stratolaunch Systems, the aerospace company created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, says it’s exploring the development of a series of… Read More

HyperSciences wins support for ram accelerator from NASA, Shell — and from crowdfunding

Things are looking up, and looking down, for HyperSciences Inc. Either way, that’s good news for the four-year-old hypersonic startup… Read More

Going hypersonic: Boeing joins in $37.3M investment round for Reaction Engines

Boeing’s HorizonX venture investment arm is placing a big bet on hypersonic flight. Today it announced that it’s going in… Read More