Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that its Hyper-X Launch Vehicle was successfully launched on Saturday, March 27 in a flight test that originated from NASA’s Dryden Flight ...

The set of problems that have never had a “just run it in the tunnel” has never had a hypersonics set. What X-43A has brought with it forever is that it made reality confront an engineering problem ...

Successful Mach 7 mission is crucial to plans to fly vehicle at M10 and for follow-on faster experimental craft NASA has scheduled its crucial second attempt to fly the X-43A experimental hypersonic ...

A successful Mach 7 flight by NASA's X-43A has rekindled hopes that the agency can be persuaded to reverse its recent cancellation of future hypersonic research. NASA has agreed to fund an M10 flight ...

LOS ANGELES – A tiny unmanned NASA scramjet soared above the Pacific Ocean Tuesday at nearly 10 times the speed of sound, or almost 7,000 mph, in a successful demonstration of a radical new engine ...

NASA is making preparations for a renewed test of an experimental aircraft designed to cruise at hypersonic speeds, after a dress rehearsal for the flight went off without a hitch. The X-plane, dubbed ...

NASA's X-43A hypersonic demonstrator is gearing up for its second Mach 7 flight attempt next month, the outcome of which may determine whether the program will make a third flight attempt at Mach 10.

LOS ANGELES A tiny unmanned NASA "scramjet" soared above the Pacific Ocean Tuesday at nearly 10 times the speed of sound, or almost 7,000 mph, in a successful demonstration of a radical new engine ...

LOS ANGELES - An unmanned NASA jet screamed into the record books high over the Pacific Ocean by reaching speeds of almost 7,000 mph, brightening hopes that humans might one day be able to fly across ...