Tag: Hypersonics

Hypersonic vehicles set to blast off from SA spaceports

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australian aerospace startup Hypersonix Launch Systems will launch and return hypersonic vehicles from a new suborbital flight test service to be set up at Southern Launch spaceports as early...

Gilmour Space to launch hypersonics testbed

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Local space technology company Gilmour Space will launch a suborbital flight test service for hypersonic vehicles as demand grows for high-speed test facilities in Australia. The new HyPeRsonic Flight...

Directed energy weapons are no longer science fiction

Posted on   |  by Matt Jones
In 1977, Star Wars extensively used directed energy weapons either from spaceships or the iconic lightsabre, later referred to as the “laser sword”. Nearly 50 years on, contemporary circumstances...

Opposition push for AUKUS ‘Pillar III’

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The lack of a national Defence strategy is delaying the technology and advanced capability component of the AUKUS arrangement and a potential new pillar covering supply chains, according to...

Hypersonix builds its first reusable scramjet engine demonstrator

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Brisbane-based Hypersonix has completed pilot production of its reusable hydrogen-powered scramjet engine, as it seeks an Australian manufacturer for its single-use engines. The technology demonstrator of its hydrogen-powered SPARTAN...

AUKUS Pillar Two: Commercial returns for Defence tech?

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The fevered anticipation about which nuclear submarines Australia will acquire and where they will be built is understandable. It’s a decades long program worth hundreds of billions of dollars....

AUKUS meets ahead of non-proliferation conference

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The AUKUS Joint Steering Groups met at the Pentagon last week ahead of the tenth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at the United...