Sandoval County commissioners approved financial incentives to bring a multi-million-dollar missile manufacturing facility to ...

Community members weighed in Tuesday on plans for a missile production and testing facility in Sandoval County.

The first live-fire test took place on Jun. 28, in what the DoD also described as an “end-to-end flight test” of the hypersonic missile from the Pacific Missile Range in Kauai, Hawaii. “The test ...

Speed is paramount in designing missiles, so engineers have worked for years to improve how fast a missile can fly. The goal is to strike a target without warning, so the faster an object, the harder ...

A major focus in missile development of the 21st century has been hypersonic research. Hypersonic flight is achieved when an object surpasses Mach 5 (3,836 mph), and getting it right is the Holy Grail ...

North Korea said Thursday that its latest missile tests involved a new hypersonic system aimed at strengthening its nuclear ...

Hypersonic weapons are so fast, their speed can change the surrounding air molecules. They can carry a nuclear warhead, fly low and be hard to detect. Because of their potential to transform modern ...

The United States has actively pursued the development of hypersonic weapons as a part of its conventional prompt global strike program since the early 2000s. In recent years, it has focused such ...

US aerospace start-up Stratolaunch has completed the much-awaited first hypersonic flight with its reusable Talon-A vehicle. That inaugural flight took place in December, but was only revealed by the ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Venus Aerospace has made the most efficient rocket engines ever flown. They will go from runway to mach 9 hypersonic speed.

The United States has actively pursued the development of hypersonic weapons—maneuvering weapons that fly at speeds of at least Mach 5—as a part of its conventional prompt global strike program since ...