DARPA has launched an unmanned hypersonic gliding vehicle that can reach speeds up to Mach 20 (13,000mph). The Falcon program aims to develop and demonstrate hypersonic technologies for prompt use in ...

For the second time in a row, the Falcon HTV-2, the unmanned hypersonic glider developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the U.S. defense failed its test flight and got ...

DARPA has confirmed the splash down of its unmanned Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV-2) following the hypersonic vehicle's second test flight on August 11. While a "controlled descent" ...

WASHINGTON — For the second straight time, controllers lost contact with an experimental U.S. military hypersonic vehicle before it could complete its planned flight profile. The second Hypersonic ...

A test flight of a hypersonic aircraft, which was touted as the world's fastest ever plane, capable of reaching speeds up to 13,000 miles per hour, failed as the Falcon HTV-2 crashed into the Pacific ...

DARPA's Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) hit approximately Mach 20 — about 13,000 miles per hour or 3.6 miles per second. DARPA claimed the Falcon could fly from New York City to Los ...

Aerodynamic design validated and new understanding of thermal material properties gained Following an extensive seven-month analysis of data collected from the Aug. 11, 2011, second flight of DARPA’s ...