Key Points and Summary - Lockheed Martin’s SR-72 Son of Blackbird or “Darkstar” aims to replace the SR-71 with hypersonic ISR—and possibly strike—using a turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) that ...
This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Danny Lewis: A few weeks back, in July, I took a trip north from Manhattan to ...
For years, the United States has trailed behind Russia and China in hypersonic weapons. A new engine prototype by Lockheed ...
US startup New Frontier Aerospace has found success in its series of tests of its hypersonic engine called "Mjölnir," based on the best-known hammer of the Norse mythology thunder god, Thor. This new ...
Researchers in China have introduced a new hypersonic engine concept by integrating a ramjet with a rotary detonation engine. A team at Tsinghua University in Beijing created a new design known as the ...
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 ...
HOUSTON, April 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Venus Aerospace, the startup building the world's most advanced engine system for hypersonic flight, today announced the successful completion of a ...
An aircraft running on hydrogen that races through the upper atmosphere at speeds exceeding twelve times the speed of sound might seem like a fantasy reserved exclusively for science fiction. That, ...
Chinese scientists have once again innovated a new technology—and not just any technology, but an extraordinary new engine that could improve rotating detonation engines. It could have profound ...
In what may be a world first, Venus Aerospace has, for the first time in the US, successfully flown a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) that uses supersonic explosions to create thrust. Such ...
Polaris will build a two-stage, horizontal take-off and fully reusable hypersonic research vehicle, featuring a linear aerospike rocket engine. German company Polaris Spaceplanes announced on Jan. 27, ...
HOUSTON, Jan. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Venus Aerospace, a trailblazer in hypersonic engine technology, is excited to announce an investment by America's Frontier Fund (AFF), a premier deep-tech ...