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But the deeper you look into the physics, the engines and the heat involved, the clearer it becomes that hypersonics solve ...

Today scramjet propulsion is the subject of continued study, as it appears to be one of the most promising methods of powering hypersonic weapons and aircraft. So, you may be surprised to learn that ...

D. It Never Flew — and That Matters Now. -NASA’s X-43A proved that an air-breathing scramjet could fly at hypersonic speeds, ...

The Defense Department’s Hypersonic Air-Breathing Weapons Concept (HAWC) recently took off from an aircraft propelled by a supersonic combustion ramjet, also known as a scramjet, traveling at five ...

NASA’s second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft flew successfully today, the first time an airbreathing scramjet powered aircraft has flown freely. The unpiloted vehicle’s supersonic combustion ...

A recent flight test of a prototype of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept set an endurance record for scramjet engines, the head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency told ...

The world of hypersonic vehicles is getting increasingly interesting, with a number of companies already working on designs that should make high-Mach travel inside our planet's atmosphere a reality.

A drop of kerosene sprayed into the combustion chamber of a scramjet engine has a lot of work to do in 1/1,000th of a second. Specifically, each hydrocarbon molecule must be mixed with compressed air, ...

A team at the Purdue Applied Research Institute (PARI), the university’s research and development center, is using state-of-the-art additive-manufacturing equipment to print a full-scale, fully ...

testing at Mach 6.5 is expected to be completed later this month. This engine, known as the Ground Demonstration Engine (GDE-1), uses standard JP-7 fuel in an ...

Brisbane, Australia-based Hypersonix Launch Systems is preparing to begin tests of a scramjet made from high-temperature ceramic matrix composites (HTCMCs), following delivery of a technology ...