GE and Lockheed ground tested a new air-breathing hypersonic jet engine capable of powering missiles to speeds well in excess of Mach 5 in a smaller, cheaper, ...

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory are developing the next generation of solid-fuel ramjet (SFRJ) propulsion, ...

“Breaking Mach 9.6 with an air-breathing engine wasn’t just a speed stunt. It confirmed that scramjets can operate where rockets once had the field to themselves,” said Harry J. Kazianis, citing the ...

India recently announced that it had developed a 155mm Ramjet 155mm artillery shell. A ramjet is an air-breathing engine that requires no compressor or turbine because the high speed of the shell once ...

Developing a hypersonic weapon is no longer considered a single ‘silver bullet’ effort. It is now considered a repeatable engineering process, where designs quickly prove themselves or are replaced.

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 ...

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 ...

More than 14 years have passed since the first X-51A WaveRider—powered by a supersonic combustion ramjet (scramjet) engine built by Aerojet Rocketdyne, now a part of L3Harris Technologies—made ...