Stratolaunch Systems conducted its first hypersonic test flight with its Talon-A2 vehicle and Roc carrier plane in December, ...

This is the first time anyone in the United States has flown a reusable hypersonic rocket plane since the last flight of the ...

In an important milestone to develop next-generation precision navigation, Northrop Grumman has successfully demonstrated ...

Both flights met all of the Defense Department’s performance benchmarks within a 1% margin, according to Stratolaunch CEO ...

Launched from Roc, Stratolaunch’s massive carrier aircraft boasting a record-breaking 385-foot wingspan, the Talon-A2 drone ...

A plane is supersonic if it moves faster than the speed of sound in air, which is around 343 meters per second (767 miles per ...

The Stratolaunch Talon-A2 hypersonic drone successfully surpassed Mach 5 in back-to-back tests, the U.S. Department of ...

Stratolaunch successfully tested fore the second time a fully recoverable uncrewed hypersonic vehicle for the Department of ...

In January 2025, Kratos and Stratolaunch signed a contract with the DoD for “systems engineering, integration, and testing, to include integrated subscale, full-scale, and air launch services to ...

Stratolaunch Systems has gone hypersonic — twice. Stratolaunch took its uncrewed Talon-A2 prototype to hypersonic speeds for the first time this past December, then repeated the feat in March ...

The MACH-TB program is intended to increase the speed of testing for all commercially available hypersonic systems. This was ...