Hypersonic flight, with speeds exceeding Mach 5, pushes the boundaries of engineering. But as vehicles slice through the atmosphere at these incredible velocities, complex interactions occur between ...

The Defense Innovation Unit achieved a successful suborbital launch of a hypersonic test platform that demonstrated sustained ...

Recent advances in hypersonic flow dynamics have underscored the critical interplay between aerodynamic forces and thermal loads experienced by high-speed vehicles. Research in this field focuses on ...

At hypersonic speeds, complexities occur when the gases interact with the surface of the vehicle, such as boundary layers and shock waves. Researchers in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at The ...

The study of hypersonic inlet aerodynamics and flow dynamics encompasses a diverse field where extreme speeds, intense thermal loads and complex shock–boundary layer interactions coalesce to define ...

Contours of normalized temperature perturbations of optimal responses inside the boundary layer and the entropy layer, and these optimal responses may shift to another type as a change of specific ...

Aerospace and defense company Ursa Major aims to bring greater containment and control to hypersonic flight with its HAVOC ...

Ursa Major Technologies has completed the first hot-fire tests of its Hadley H13 liquid rocket engine, a milestone the company says could support reusable hypersonic test vehicles and smaller launch ...

February 13 2025, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced its secretive Aerospace Projects Office (APO) is developing a large hypersonic bomber prototype as part of the Next ...

A promising technique for tracking boost-glide hypersonic vehicles involves detecting radio waves emitted by plasma in the wake. Passive detection would be a valuable capability, since existing ...

NATO- and U.S.-backed hypersonic ceramic survives 2,700 K plasma test, revealing potential new path to reusable extreme-speed flight.

Rocket Lab is preparing its fourth military hypersonic test mission in under six months for the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit and Hypersonix. The mission will use Rocket Lab’s HASTE rocket to deploy a ...