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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The successful demonstration of inertial measurement unit technology on a hypersonic aircraft is an industry first.

Talon-A2 conducted a successful hypersonic flight and recovery in March 2025, after the first in December 2024. Stratolaunch ...

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 ...