Key Points and Summary - A look back at NASA's X-43A, the unmanned experimental aircraft that holds the world record for the fastest flight by an air-breathing jet. -As part of the Hyper-X program, ...

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 ...

Venus Aerospace has made the most efficient rocket engines ever flown. They will go from runway to mach 9 hypersonic speed. The Venus Aerospace Stargazer M4 is designed to reach a top speed of Mach 9, ...

Civilian supersonic flight may not have made its anticipated revival yet but there's still a need for speed as shown by ...

The scramjet in the movie "Top Gun: Maverick" was roughly based on the Lockheed SR-72, which is supposedly in development. [Image courtesy of Patrick Chovanec] The article details a simulated ...

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Venus Aerospace is developing a 12 passenger Mach 9 hypersonic aircraft (Stargazer) that will connect any destination in the world in under an hour. The aircraft will use a rotating detonation rocket ...

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 ...