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Alliant Techsystems, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) successfully ground-launched and flew a hypersonic scramjet-powered vehicle from the ...

testing at Mach 6.5 is expected to be completed later this month. This engine, known as the Ground Demonstration Engine (GDE-1), uses standard JP-7 fuel in an ...

Supersonic combustion and scramjet engine dynamics represent a frontier in aerospace propulsion, offering a pathway to ultra‐high-speed flight through the efficient combustion of fuel in a supersonic ...

NASA’s X-43A, a groundbreaking hypersonic scramjet vehicle, achieved an unprecedented speed of Mach 9.6, solidifying its status as the fastest atmospheric combustion-engine air vehicle in the world.

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has confirmed that it is developing the SR-72 spy plane. The successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, which was capable of Mach 3.5, the SR-72 will be a hypersonic unmanned ...

Chinese researchers have reportedly developed a new type of afterburner for scramjet engines that could achieve Mach 6 at altitudes of 98,425 feet (30 km). According to the team behind it, this was ...