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 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 ...

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 ...

NASA has set Saturday, March 27 for the flight of the experimental X-43A research vehicle. The flight is part of the Hyper-X program, a research effort to demonstrate alternate propulsion technologies ...

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 ...

NASA mission controllers decided to delay the flight of their supersonic X-43A aircraft until Tuesday after instrument trouble caused them to miss their planned Monday launch. The unmanned "scramjet," ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

NASA engineers shattered the aircraft speed record on Tuesday by flying their unmanned X-43A jet off the coast of California at nearly 6,600 miles per hour. The historic flight began at about 2:36 p.m ...