Key Points and Summary - NASA’s X-43A wasn’t a paper study—it was a 12-foot, hydrogen-fueled experimental jet that proved an air-breathing engine could fly at nearly ten times the speed of sound. -It ...

Russia has quietly deployed the Iskander-1000, a ground-launched hypersonic missile with a range of 1000-1300 km, a speed of ...

Making stuff go fast is one of humanity’s most basic and thrilling engineering pleasures. Now the startup Venus Aerospace wants to take that to another level entirely by creating a passenger aircraft ...

Venus Aerospace is building a hypersonic aircraft that can carry about a dozen passengers, traveling at Mach 9, nine times the speed of sound. The Stargazer, which measures 150 feet long by 100 feet ...

Venus Aerospace, a startup developing hypersonic aircraft, introduced the “Stargazer™”, the company’s first conceptual vehicle design, at the Up.Summit in Bentonville, Arkansas. The Venus Vehicle ...

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Before becoming famous as the captain of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D Federation starship, Jean-Luc Picard was a member of the crew serving aboard the USS Stargazer. That would be a Sagan-class ship ...

They call it a "scramjet," an engine so blindingly fast that it could carry an airplane from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., in about 20 minutes -- or even quicker. So fast it could put satellites ...

Boeing's claim that the F-15EX could reach Mach 2.9 has been "amended". The official number is more like Mach 2.5. In a quick about-face, Boeing’s BA F-15 business development director amended his ...