This space plane, a behemoth weighing 50 tonnes and ... and shifted the saved funding to hypersonic missiles. Now, China has picked up the relay baton handed off by America. Nonetheless, Li ...

The US has announced a $500m aid package for Ukraine, including air defence missiles and ammunition. Meanwhile, around 113 people are injured after a Russian bomb attack in the Ukrainian city of ...

But hypersonic planes would require pushing the technology ... The problem was that the usable interior space of the aircraft had to be decreased as the flight speed of the vehicle decreased.

A new video has revealed a remarkable first in hypersonic flight – an unmanned Chinese MD series aircraft being launched in near space from a high-altitude balloon, reaching a speed of Mach 7 ...

Abstract: Near-space hypersonic unmanned aircrafts (NHUA) encounter significant aerodynamic heating effects when flying at high velocities in extreme conditions. This leads to the generation of ...

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Ahead of Thursday's hypersonic missile test, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a mysterious four-hour flight restriction for unspecified "space operations” on Thursday afternoon ...

This permanent Office license is so much cheaper CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla. – The military successfully flight-tested a hypersonic missile from Florida’s Space Coast recently ...

The U.S. military successfully launched a hypersonic missile Thursday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Department of Defense officials confirmed. The unannounced midday missile flight ...

Earlier in 2013, Cai and his team had revealed a conceptual configuration of the jumbo jet aircraft which they predicted would be able to fly at hypersonic speeds. Back then, the team had stated that ...