This is the first time anyone in the United States has flown a reusable hypersonic rocket plane since the last flight of the ...

A new type of rocket engine, one that could power a plane from Los Angeles to Tokyo in just two hours, has eluded scientists ...

In what may be a world first, Venus Aerospace has, for the first time in the US, successfully flown a Rotating Detonation ...

Private companies like Stratolaunch are developing tech to regain the edge in the hypersonic arms race with innovations like ...

Dawn Aerospace’s rocket-powered aircraft soared to new heights in its latest test campaign, as the company looks to build what could be the highest-performance aircraft to take off from a runway.

[Courtesy: Dawn Aerospace] A New Zealand company developing a supersonic, remotely operated, rocket-powered aircraft has been given the all clear to break the sound barrier. Dawn Aerospace ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Dawn Aerospace's rocket-powered aircraft successfully completed its first supersonic flight, the company said in a statement on Tuesday, as it moves forward with developing ...

Dawn Aerospace's latest test flight, conducted as part of its Campaign 2-2 development program, saw its uncrewed Mk-II rocket-powered aircraft reach transonic speeds of Mach 0.92 and an altitude ...

The rocket-powered aircraft did this in 118.6 seconds, which is 4.2 seconds better than that achieved by a specially modified F-15 in the 1970s. In addition, the Mk-II Aurora made a second flight ...

the iconic rocket-powered aircraft that pushed the envelope of high-altitude, high-speed flight 60 years ago. Stratolaunch announced the results of its two most recent test flights Monday.

A California-based startup pulled off two hypersonic flights of its reusable aircraft, which became the first fully ...