The fastest air-breathing vehicle ever built was the NASA X-43. Only three of these aircraft were built, with one being destroyed and two operating successfully. The X-43 testbed aircraft measured 12 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shaped much like a miniature NASA space shuttle, Stratolaunch's uncrewed, rocket-propelled Talon-A2 aircraft detached in midair ...

The Air Force may revive a shuttered wind tunnel to test hypersonic systems in realistic atmospheric conditions, according to a recent offer published on the government contracting site. The service’s ...

Venus Aerospace, a Houston-based startup developing hypersonic propulsion technology, completed what it calls the first U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first rocket launch of 2026 is coming up in Virginia. And once again, it'll be a company known as Rocket Lab that's planning ...

NASA’s Advanced Air Vehicles Program (AAVP) studies, evaluates, and develops technologies and capabilities for new aircraft ...

Rocket Lab is planning to launch its Electron rocket from Virginia's Wallops Flight Facility on Sunday, Nov. 16. The mission, named VAN, is part of Rocket Lab's HASTE program, which involves ...

NASA Wallops Flight Facility provided tracking, telemetry, and range safety support for Rocket Lab’s HASTE suborbital Cassowary Vex launch, enabling a hypersonic test flight for the Defense Innovation ...

On February 27, 2026, Australia's Hypersonix Launch Systems made a historic launch of its next-generation DART AE hypersonic aircraft from Wallops Island, Virginia. Taking off aboard Rocket Lab's ...

Rocket Lab will launch a hypersonic configuration of its Electron rocket on a hypersonic test from Wallops in Virginia.