China has revealed the first known images of an indigenous scramjet test that it says was successfully conducted at speeds up to Mach 7 and altitudes up to 30 km, in December 2015. Credit: National ...

They call it a "scramjet," an engine so blindingly fast that it could carry an airplane from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., in about 20 minutes -- or even quicker. So fast it could put satellites ...

In the early 2000s, NASA was among the first to achieve sustained hypersonic flight. As part of the broader Hyper-X program, ...

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Will DeVerter, a graduate research assistant in the Purdue Applied Research Institute’s Hypersonics Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center (HAMTC), prepares his team’s 3D printed scramjet for ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The first hypersonic X-51scramjet powered long-duration flights to give the Pentagon a new ...

A jet engine is any engine that can propel an aircraft of some kind via rearward expulsion of a jet of fluid, typically a hot exhaust gas that the engine generates by drawing in fuel from the ...

The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) completed a series of “record-breaking tests” of a scramjet engine in November. The hot-fire tests were conducted on the ground at the Arnold Engineering ...

A supersonic scramjet engine has been successfully launched from a test range in Australia. The Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) said the scramjet achieved reached 10 ...

A Japanese research agency has completed a successful combustion test of a hypersonic scramjet engine launched by a sounding rocket. The experimental scramjet vehicle was launched on July 24 by the ...