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America hit Mach 9.6, then shelved the Mach 15 follow-up

“Scramjet-powered vehicles are envisioned to operate at speeds up to at least Mach 15,” NASA said after this program for ...
Marking a further breakthrough in hypersonic missile technology for India, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) achieved a 1,200-second runtime of its actively cooled scramjet full ...
A jet engine is any engine that can propel an aircraft of some kind via rearward expulsion of a jet of fluid, typically a hot exhaust gas that the engine generates by drawing in fuel from the ...
Going really fast has always been one of the major goals of air-breathing aircraft ("air-breathing" meaning that it's not powered by a rocket, and relies on air for fuel combustion) development since ...
A team of engineers at the Air Force Research Laboratory and Air Force Test Center have set a record for the highest thrust produced by an air-breathing hypersonic engine in the military branch's ...
At the PARI Hypersonics Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center (HAMTC), from left: Nate Humbert, lead additive manufacturing engineer, GE Additive; Will DeVerter, aeronautics and astronautics ...
A scramjet engine made by Northrop Grumman set a record for the highest thrust produced by an air-breathing hypersonic engine in US Air Force history. Ground tests of the 5.5m (18ft)-long engine were ...
Things are going up down in Australia, and reaching hypersonic speed. An experiment in harnessing scramjet technology for future space transportation systems was flown last weekend by the University ...