NASA's X-59 jet will fly faster than speed of sound. 2nd flight today

NASA's experimental supersonic X-59 jet designed to travel faster than the speed of sound is preparing for its second flight ...
FLYING Magazine

Hermeus Flies Second Supersonic Test Plane in Nine Months

Company aims to achieve supersonic speed with its Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 before advancing to more powerful aircraft.
Aviation Week

Australian Scramjet-Powered Vehicle Makes First Hypersonic Test Flight

An Australian-made hypersonic vehicle completed its first flight late on Feb. 27, propelled to Mach 5-plus speeds by a Rocket Lab HASTE rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia. The scramjet-powered, ...
CNN

NASA designates botched Boeing Starliner test flight a ‘Type A mishap’ in new report

The botched test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft — a protracted saga that kept two astronauts in space months longer than expected — was a debacle in league with US space shuttle disasters ...
Stars and Stripes

First Sentinel ICBM test flight unlikely until 2028, GAO says

Software delays related to the U.S. Air Force’s future LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile could pose “significant risks” to the program, requiring the U.S. to continue using the ...
Reuters

Electric vertical takeoff aircraft completes first public test flight in Munich

MUNICH, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Munich startup ERC System has conducted a test flight of what it says is one of Europe's largest electric vertical takeoff aircraft (eVTOL), a 2.7-tonne prototype designed ...
Washington Examiner

Hegseth takes test flight with NASA administrator as they prepare for Artemis II flight

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth went on a test flight in Florida on Monday, flown by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, as the agency prepares for its Artemis II launch expected for next week. The same ...
SpaceNews

SpaceX plans next Starship test flight in March

SpaceX’s Starship ascends on the Flight 11 launch Oct. 13. Credit: SpaceX ORLANDO, Fla. — The first Starship test flight of 2026 is scheduled for as soon as early March as SpaceX enters a critical ...
Jane's Information Group

Stella Tecnologia conducts test flight of turbine engine-based UAV

The Albatroz tactical UAV fitted out with a combustion engine, seen here at Stella's plant in March 2025. (Victor Barreira) Brazilian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) specialist Stella Tecnologia ...
Business Wire

Astra Ships 110 Satellite Engines, Focuses on 2026 Test Flight of New Rocket

ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Astra today announced it has shipped 110 satellite engine systems since January 1, 2025, surpassing a key operating milestone set when the company went private in ...
WAFF

Historic NASA test structures demolished at Marshall Space Flight Center

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - The landscape at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center has changed forever. Two very large and critical structures during the Apollo and Shuttle eras were demolished Saturday ...
Aviation Today

First MQ-25 Flight Test Pushed To Early 2026

The Navy and Boeing have pushed back the initial flight test of the first MQ-25A Stingray aircraft carrier-based tanker aircraft into early 2026. The government-industry team insisted they are making ...