The test conducted by the Aerophysics Research Facility (ARF) on December 11 involved a high-velocity launch using one of the ...

The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Technical Center’s Aerophysics Research Facility, or ARF, fired a successful ...

The Department of Defense (DoD) on Friday revealed that the missile launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on April 25 successfully demonstrated an end-to-end hypersonic flight ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. CHANTILLY, Va., Nov. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcfield, a leading government services and mission support provider, ...

Hypersonic weapons are in the spotlight. Here’s how they work, why they matter, and what current programs in Russia, China, ...

A team of engineers at Sandia National Labs is developing new materials to evaluate thermal protection for hypersonic ...

Hypersonic aircraft promise to compress distance and time in ways that make even the fastest supersonic jets look dated, yet ...

In a step that could bolster the U.S.'s hypersonic weapons push, the Pentagon on Monday confirmed the second successful test of a reusable hypersonic vehicle in March, just three months after the ...

An important part of data collection for the United States space program, the North American X-15 had astonishing performance ...

From the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 to the now-routine return of commercial spacecraft, heat shields—formally called thermal protection systems—are critical for protecting ...

In what may be a world first, Venus Aerospace has, for the first time in the US, successfully flown a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) that uses supersonic explosions to create thrust. Such ...

CHANTILLY, Va., Nov. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcfield, a leading government services and mission support provider, announced today that it has been selected as the prime contractor on the Hypersonic ...