Lockheed Martin Opens $17 Million Hypersonic Facility in Alabama
Lockheed Martin has opened its $17 million, 17,000-square-foot Hypersonics System Integration Lab on its Huntsville campus. The integration facility will bring together advanced test equipment, simulation tools and an integration environment under one roof. The new facility will shorten development cycles and fielding higher performance systems for the U.S. Army. The facility was completed in […]
Army and Navy Team Up for Hypersonic Missile Launch from Cape Canaveral
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Cape Canaveral Space Force Station had a different kind of launch on its plate Thursday when the Army and Navy teamed up to complete a test of a hypersonic missile. The launch of what is known as the Dark Eagle Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon system was an end-to-end test using Space […]
Pentagon Holding Back on Hypersonic Weapons' Risks, GAO Says
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon isn’t giving Congress and the public a full assessment of its difficulties and challenges developing hypersonic weapons to counter those already deployed by China and Russia, according to congressional auditors. Despite test failures with Air Force and Army systems that were supposed to become operational already, the Pentagon “is not comprehensively […]