The FTX-40 test, or “Stellar Banshee,” served as a validation for modern hypersonic missile tracking satellites, upgraded ...

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has unveiled an internally funded effort to develop a drone capable of exceeding Mach 5, ...

The detail was disclosed when Aviation Week asked if the IPIF would support only payloads for hypersonic glide vehicles ...

Kratos already has built a hypersonic portfolio with a pair of hypersonic glide vehicles called Erinyes and Dark Fury. Both ...

Gary Polansky, the chief scientist for hypersonic technology development and applications ... Earlier in his career at Sandia, Polansky led the development and rocket sled testing of Kinetic Energy ...

WASHINGTON--The Pentagon’s hypersonic weapon programs suffered a setback on Thursday when a booster rocket carrying a hypersonic weapon failed, people briefed on the test result said. The test ...

How about the X-15 — the world’s first hypersonic rocket plane. The program was a masterclass in rapid, real-world learning. In one particularly dramatic episode in 1959, an X-15 landed so ...

Traditional testing relies on comprehensive “full-up” flight tests that evaluate every component of a hypersonic weapon system simultaneously — from the booster rocket to the flight vehicle ...