China has conducted a noticeable twilight missile test aimed at signaling rather than keeping it secret. On September 29, around 6 pm local time, a large solid-fuel booster was launched from northern ...

Stratolaunch’s Talon-A lands on the runway at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, in December 2024. (Stratolaunch) The Pentagon announced Monday that California-based firm Stratolaunch completed ...

At the center of the project is Draper, a 4,000-pound-thrust liquid-fueled rocket motor powered by a closed-cycle hydrogen peroxide–kerosene mix. Unlike the hazardous, short-lived propellants common ...

The delivery of the first prototype hypersonic hardware to soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. (Photo by Spc. Karleshia Gater/US Army) The U.S. Army has scheduled a test of its ...

Talon-A2 conducted a successful hypersonic flight and recovery in March 2025, after the first in December 2024. Stratolaunch announced on May 5, 2025, the successful completion of its second ...

Crew members aboard the Admiral Golovko, a frigate with the Northern Fleet, fired a Zircon missile at a sea target in the Barents Sea, Russia's government said on Sunday. The Admiral Golovko has been ...

The FTX-40 test, or “Stellar Banshee,” served as a validation for modern hypersonic missile tracking satellites, upgraded versions of the SM-6, Aegis’s ability to track hypersonic threats, and a new ...

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 ...