The race to bring hypersonic flight into the real world just took a leap forward with Venus Aerospace's successful test of a revolutionary engine. The Houston-based startup has developed a compact ...

Revolutionary engine prototype three decades in the making could replace combined turbine-ramjet systems in high-speed flight ...

Aerospace startup Hermeus Corp. today announced that it has raised $350 million in equity and debt funding. The bulk of the ...

China is developing a groundbreaking air-breathing engine, potentially powering next-generation fighter jets and hypersonic ...

Rotating Detonation Engines (RDE) have been flown by Venus Aerospace. They use continuous detonation waves for propulsion and provide 15% efficiency gains (in specific impulse or fuel consumption) ...

Hermeus raises $350M to expand hypersonic aircraft development and accelerate rapid prototyping for defence applications.

Hermeus has raised $350M, at a $1B valuation to continue building autonomous hypersonic aircraft. An F-16-sized demonstrator flew in March.

GE and Lockheed Martin have demonstrated a new rotating detonation engine ramjet design in a series of tests that show significant potential for efficiency gains. If developed into a full missile ...

Venus Aerospace has made the most efficient rocket engines ever flown. They will go from runway to mach 9 hypersonic speed. The Venus Aerospace Stargazer M4 is designed to reach a top speed of Mach 9, ...

Aviation is inseparably linked to the chase of speed. Since the first days of the powered flight, engineers and pilots have ...

On March 26, a "common hypersonic missile " was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The ...

The European Space Agency is throwing its weight behind a design effort for a hypersonic spaceplane, with hopes of getting the final idea airborne (and spaceborne) by 2031. The ESA is putting up ...