The rebirth of commercial supersonic flight has kind of, sort of come to pass as Dawn Aerospace announces that its 16-ft (4.8-m) Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft broke the sound barrier with a ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Dawn Aerospace's rocket-powered aircraft successfully completed its first supersonic flight, the company said in a statement on Tuesday, as it moves forward with developing ...

The competition for new highly-maneuverable drones just got much hotter. Dawn Hypersonics — part of Dawn Aerospace — today revealed it has achieved supersonic flight with their prototype Mk-II Aurora ...

The rotating detonation rocket engine is powered by supersonic technology, in a breakthrough that could revolutionize the way humans travel in space. Reading time 2 minutes As NASA gears up for a ...

NASA announced that its engineers have developed and tested the agency's first full-scale rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE). The agency said that the design could significantly change how ...

A supersonic drone that will be propelled by a revolutionary new engine has taken to the skies for the first time. When Venus Aerospace's aircraft does go supersonic on a later date, it will be ...

Today, Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial spaceline, which is owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi’s aabar Investments PJS, successfully completed the third ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 aircraft set a new speed record during its latest test flight. The Colorado company is working through a flight test program of the XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft, which ...

Dawn Aerospace conducted an "all-up" ground test of its Mark-II Aurora rocketplane in June ahead of a new series of flight tests. Credit: Dawn Aerospace TOKYO — Dawn Aerospace says it has received ...