The Defense Department has tapped Rocket Lab to launch its Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) rocket 20 times in four years, with the first launch expected within “months” of ...

An Australian-designed hypersonic aircraft has taken flight in space after Rocket Lab, the New Zealand-founded space company, ...

Rocket Lab announced the agreement for a series of missions using its HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) ...

The Royal New Zealand Navy, Defence Science and Technology (DST), and Dawn Aerospace, have completed a live radar tracking experiment using a reusable rocket-powered aircraft off the Canterbury ...

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and its partners have completed a suborbital launch of a fully integrated hypersonic test ...

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SpaceX has long been at the front of US space operations, but now a new company has unveiled a hypersonic rocket that could set the new standard.

The ram accelerator is a rocketless propulsion platform that uses clean gases to accelerate payloads to hypersonic speeds. First conceived at the University of Washington, it was adapted by General ...

NASA Wallops Flight Facility provided tracking, telemetry, and range safety support for Rocket Lab’s HASTE suborbital Cassowary Vex launch, enabling a hypersonic test flight for the Defense Innovation ...