Space-tech startup Orbitt Space has secured $1 million in a pre-seed funding round. Pi Ventures headed the investor's list for the Ahmedabad, India firm, followed by IIMA Ventures. Orbitt will use the ...

Key Points and Summary on X-43A - NASA's X-43A was a small, unmanned experimental aircraft that, in 2004, shattered world records by flying at nearly Mach 10 (almost 7,000 mph), becoming the fastest ...

The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine design that could potentially allow conventional ...

Venus Aerospace, making hypersonic flight a reality for commercial and defense purposes, has achieved the first long-duration engine test of their Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) in ...

Scientists at the forefront of hypersonic weapons research in China say they have a more powerful revolutionary air-breathing engine. The “revolutionary” air-breathing engine could lift an aircraft ...

There is no shortage of older or younger companies working as you're reading this on some kind of hypersonic aircraft design. Most of these ideas come from the North American continent, and they are ...

Aircraft cabins maintain a breathable environment by drawing air from engines, compressing and cooling it. This 'bleed air' ...

(Reuters) - Here is a look at the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) developed by Reaction Engines Ltd over the last 20 years which could power a re-usable space plane. Sabre will be a new ...

An astrophysicist estimated that Santa would need to travel at roughly Mach 3,000 to visit an estimated 91.8 million children ...

Company officials say their new Barracuda line of air-breathing missiles will cost 30 percent less than comparable weapons and are designed to address the Pentagon’s relatively recent realization that ...