Although it eventually crashed into the ocean after exhausting its fuel, the X-51’s successful sustained hypersonic flight provided critical data informing today's hypersonic missile development.

A Scramjet utilized the atmosphere’s oxygen, the air compression from its own forward motion, and less fuel than a traditional rocket to propel a craft to hypersonic ... of the X-51 didn ...

It was the last of three planned tests of the X-51, designed to demonstrate the feasibility of a hypersonic missile. It now joins a long list of failed hypersonic flights that show just how ...

Four seconds later an Army Tactical Missile solid rocket booster accelerated the X-51 to about Mach 4.8 mach ... knowledge from each successive flight. Hypersonic flight, normally defined as ...

The Air Force has successfully launched the X-51 WaveRider hypersonic missile, bringing the military one step closer to a Mach 6 cruise missile that's 10 times faster than current models.

thisscramjet-powered hypersonic missile could strike anywhere on Earth withextraordinary kinetic impact energy. The Defense Dept./NASA X-51 program is themost critical element of this new weapons ...

This spring, the Air Force was preparing for a groundbreaking test of the X-51 WaveRider, a hypersonic cruise missile that would reach speeds of up to Mach 6. But it looks like the WaveRider's ...

Instead, the air branch is pushing hypersonic missiles, powered by the type of air-breathing scramjet engine that propelled Boeing's rocket-boosted Boeing X-51 WaveRider in 2013. Engineless boost ...

“Hypersonic” refers to the speed of an aircraft blasting through the air at five times the speed of sound or more. Engineers who developed the X-51 at Boeing Co.’s Phantom Works research ...

A Scramjet utilized the atmosphere's oxygen, the air compression from its own forward motion, a less fuel than a traditional rocket to propel a craft to hypersonic ... of the X-51 didn't go ...