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

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

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

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.

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

A civil aircraft has flown supersonic for the first time since Concorde. Dawn Aerospace says the Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft broke the sound barrier on its recent test flight. The flight ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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