Key Points and Summary - NASA’s X-43A wasn’t a paper study—it was a 12-foot, hydrogen-fueled experimental jet that proved an air-breathing engine could fly at nearly ten times the speed of sound. -It ...

Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that its Hyper-X Launch Vehicle was successfully launched on Saturday, March 27 in a flight test that originated from NASA’s Dryden Flight ...

NASA's successful X-43A hypersonic research aircraft flight resulted in a treasure trove of scramjet data. The initial data review, conducted on March 31, confirmed high-fidelity flight data was ...

NASA's X-43A research vehicle screamed into the record books again Tuesday, demonstrating an air-breathing engine can fly at nearly 10 times the speed of sound. Preliminary data from the ...

In 2004, the 12-foot-long, unmanned X-43A was the fastest powered air-breathing vehicle to date at Mach 6.8 in March and Mach 9.6 in November. Each record flight was just seconds long, yet in those ...

expertise with hypersonic vehicles and spacecraft. On Saturday, a NASA Dryden Flight Research Center B-52 aircraft flown from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., carried the X-43A off the California coast ...

NASA's X-43A Hyper-X mishap investigation board has concluded that the 2 June2001 hypersonic test attempt failed because of a deficient vehicle control system stemming from modelling inaccuracies. The ...

SCRUBBED: For the second consecutive day, NASA has scrubbed a planned captive-carry flight for the "Hyper-X" X-43A hypersonic demonstrator due to a hydraulic problem on its B-52 carrier. In a dress ...

Successful Mach 7 mission is crucial to plans to fly vehicle at M10 and for follow-on faster experimental craft NASA has scheduled its crucial second attempt to fly the X-43A experimental hypersonic ...

CAPTIVE CARRY: NASA's X-43A "Hyper-X" hypersonic demonstrator conducted its final captive-carry flight at Dryden Flight Research Center Sept. 27 in preparation for a Mach 10 (7,600 miles per hour) ...

Shortly after 2 p.m. PST the X-43A unmanned vehicle separated from a Pegasus rocket booster and achieved Mach 7 speeds during a successful test of the vehicle's scramjet engine. Following a lift from ...

The November 16 flight took place in restricted airspace over the Pacific Ocean northwest of Los Angeles. The flight was the last and fastest of three unpiloted tests in NASA's Hyper-X Program. The ...