Scramjet from Popular Science. The first true reusable, free-flying scramjet could be Darpa's HTV-3X. It is also known as Blackswift. The HTV-3x could make its inaugural flight as early as 2012.

Rocketing through the stratosphere, gulping oxygen and turning it into jet fuel, the High-tech "scramjet" has been described as the "future aircraft" of the 21st century. But here's the thing: It's ...

More than 14 years have passed since the first X-51A WaveRider—powered by a supersonic combustion ramjet (scramjet) engine built by Aerojet Rocketdyne, now a part of L3Harris Technologies—made ...

Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK – News) successfully certified its Advanced Propulsion Research Complex (APRC) during a recent direct-connect test of a Variable Flow Ducted Rocket (VFDR) propulsion ...

University of Queensland researchers today (August 16) claimed success for the world`s first flight test of supersonic combustion, the process used in an air-breathing supersonic ramjet engine, known ...

After decades of false starts, America’s leading scramjet engine developers say scramjet-powered hypersonic flight is now within reach. That’s partly thanks to the coming of new 3D printing technology ...

Australia and the USA are to flight test advanced waverider vehicle and scramjet engine designs under an extension to their collaboration on hypersonics. Up to 10 flights over Woomera range are ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Had the X-24C been successful in testing, America would likely have leveraged scramjet technology in more platforms. Today scramjet propulsion is the subject of ...

The X-51A Waverider, shown here under the wing of a B-52 Stratobomber, is a scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicle that demonstrated speeds in excess of Mach 5 in the early 2010s. (U.S. Air Force graphic ...