The future with hypersonics

Imagine a future where global travel takes mere hours. Where a flight from New York to Tokyo is faster than watching a movie. This is the promise of hypersonics: speeds over 3,800 miles per hour (Mach 5) that could transform commercial travel, defense and space exploration. And more urgently, with emerging threats from countries like China, Russia and Iran — the latter of which claims to have used hypersonic missiles in its October 1, 2024, attack on Israel — advancing hypersonic technology has never been more vital.