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TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) – As Elon Musk prepares to test his Starship rocket for the first time since an April takeoff ended in flames, the Japanese billionaire tapped to lead its debut passenger flight is looking at other space companies. Yusaku Maezawa, founder of online clothing retailer Zozo Inc, hoped to travel around the moon this […]

The world of hypersonic aircraft is expanding at such a rate that we will probably be faced with a literal flood of such vehicles, most of them military,...

Rocket Lab's HASTE mission accelerates hypersonic technology, showcasing precision and cost-effectiveness for national security.

Amid uncertainty over space agencies’ plans for future Venus exploration, enthusiasm for a private-sector mission grows

The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded contracts to GE Aerospace subsidiary Innoveering and Hermeus to develop prototypes of hypersonic test systems for the Department of Defense under the Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing Capabilities program. Through the HyCAT program, Innoveering will work with subcontractors Specter Aerospace and Starfighters International to build a prototype air-breathing hypersonic testbed, DIU said Monday.

Rocket Lab will launch a drone on its suborbital launch vehicle as part of a U.S. Defense Department hypersonic development project.

No date yet given for its next New Zealand launch.

This mission will introduce a suborbital payload known as DART AE, developed by the Australian company Hypersonix.

The contract is part of DIU's Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing Capabilities program, created to increase flight testing opportunities.

In statement via X, Japanese tycoon and space enthusiasts planned lunar orbital mission "dearMoon" is set for a delay amid uncertainty over SpaceXs moon expedition flight date.