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NASA’s X-43A Scramjet Almost Hit Mach 10 But Got the Hypersonic ‘Axe’

A’s Legacy Go Operational? -In 2004, NASA’s X-43A set the air-breathing speed record at Mach 9.6, validating scramjet combustion but only for 10 seconds before gliding to splashdown. -The demo ended ...
The National Interest

Mach 10 Breakthrough: GE’s New Hypersonic Jet Engine Could Transform Air Travel

The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine design that could potentially allow conventional ...
NextBigFuture

Venus Aerospace ISP Estimates From 0 to Mach 10

Venus Aerospace has not publicly released detailed specific impulse (ISP) data for their Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) or the VDR2 (a rocket-based combined cycle engine integrating RDRE ...
The Washington Post

With 'Scramjet,' NASA Shoots for Mach 10

HAMPTON, Va. -- They call it a "scramjet," an engine so blindingly fast that it could carry an airplane from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., in about 20 minutes -- or even quicker. So fast it could ...
NextBigFuture

Historic Aviation Engine Advance to Unlock Hypersonic Mach 10 Planes

Rotating Detonation Engines (RDE) have been flown by Venus Aerospace. They use continuous detonation waves for propulsion and provide 15% efficiency gains (in specific impulse or fuel consumption) ...