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Hypersonic programs and vehicles

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Aurora (aircraft)

Aurora, also known as SR-91, is the name given to a rumored American hypersonic spyplane that first appeared in a 1985 Pentagon budget document and was never confirmed to exist.

Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar

The Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar, also called Dyna-Soar, was a US Air Force program begun in 1957 for a manned, reusable hypersonic glider launched on a modified Titan ICBM.

Boeing X-51 Waverider

The Boeing X-51 Waverider, or X-51A, was an unmanned hypersonic flight test demonstrator for the US Air Force, reaching Mach 5.1 in its record 2013 flight.

DARPA Falcon Project

DARPA FALCON, or the Falcon Project, was a joint DARPA and Air Force program begun in 2003 to develop prompt global strike and low-cost small launch vehicle technologies.

HyShot

HyShot was an international scramjet flight-test program led by the University of Queensland. This program achieved the world's first flight test of supersonic combustion at Woomera in 2002.

Lockheed Martin SR-72

The Lockheed Martin SR-72, nicknamed Son of Blackbird, is a hypersonic unmanned aircraft concept that Lockheed Martin proposed in 2013 as a successor to the SR-71.

NASA X-43

The NASA X-43, or X-43A, was an unpiloted experimental hypersonic aircraft that set air-breathing speed records at Mach 7 and nearly Mach 10 in 2004.

Rockwell X-30

The Rockwell X-30 was a planned American experimental aircraft, part of the National Aero-Space Plane program, intended to reach orbit using scramjet engines; Congress canceled it in 1994.