NATO- and U.S.-backed hypersonic ceramic survives 2,700 K plasma test, revealing potential new path to reusable extreme-speed flight.

Hypersonic flight, with speeds exceeding Mach 5, pushes the boundaries of engineering. But as vehicles slice through the atmosphere at these incredible velocities, complex interactions occur between ...

Hypersonic flow testing and measurement techniques form a critical component in advancing our understanding of high-speed aerothermodynamics. Researchers utilise a variety of specialised ...

Recent advances in hypersonic flow dynamics have underscored the critical interplay between aerodynamic forces and thermal loads experienced by high-speed vehicles. Research in this field focuses on ...

Contours of normalized temperature perturbations of optimal responses inside the boundary layer and the entropy layer, and these optimal responses may shift to another type as a change of specific ...

At hypersonic speeds, complexities occur when the gases interact with the surface of the vehicle such as boundary layers and shock waves. Researchers were able to observe new disturbances in ...

When an object moves through the atmosphere at hypervelocity, it can get damaged by dust particles or water droplets suspended in that atmosphere. Simply firing dust particles or liquid droplets at ...

February 13 2025, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced its secretive Aerospace Projects Office (APO) is developing a large hypersonic bomber prototype as part of the Next ...

Rocket Lab is preparing its fourth military hypersonic test mission in under six months for the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit and Hypersonix. The mission will use Rocket Lab’s HASTE rocket to deploy a ...

Mission highlight: ‘That’s Not A Knife' Rocket Lab is targeting Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 3:00 p.m. EST for the launch of its HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) rocket from Launch ...

Hoboken, N.J., November 12, 2025 — If it were to become a reality, hypersonic flight, long the realm of science fiction, could revolutionize global travel, transforming day-long international flights ...