A British company developing a rocket engine that can combust using oxygen from the air, as opposed to carrying liquid oxygen like traditional rockets, says it's passed a "significant milestone ...

The engine is being developed by British scientists and engineers. It is a hybrid between a conventional jet engine, and a rocket system ... However, the compression of air at Mach 5 causes ...

A Houston-based aerospace firm has successfully outfitted its record-setting hypersonic engine system with NASA-supported ...

The tests demonstrated the performance of “the high-speed air-breathing engine — enabling greater ranges than a conventional rocket,” the U.K. said, adding that the achievement was a ...

What's wanted if you're building a hypersonic cruise missile is an air-breathing engine that can continually power the vehicle along. This gives it a much greater range than a rocket or hypersonic ...

Aerospace propulsion is an important and wide subject from the very powerful rocket to the very small unmanned electrical driven propeller. Even for a single subject such as rocket propulsion, there ...

The company did not disclose how much the contract was for, but said it plans to use the technology on several of its rockets.

"The U.S. Russia and China are in an arms race over hypersonics and nobody wants to drop out," journalist and technology expert, David Hambling, told Newsweek.