The US is paying $190M for Mach 5 rockets that will never reach space - here's why

The U.S. Department of Defense isn't known for its restraint when it comes to spending, but these expensive rockets that won't reach space have a clear purpose.

The Pentagon is turning suborbital flights into a hypersonic test pipeline, using Rocket Lab’s HASTE to push faster and cheaper Mach 5 weapons work

The U.S. military has signed up for 20 hypersonic test flights on Rocket Lab’s HASTE vehicle, a suborbital rocket built to ...
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US firm scores cash to fire off 20 Mach 5+ hypersonic test flights

Leidos, a major U.S. defense and technology contractor, has been named by the Department of Defense as the awardee for the MACH-TB effort aimed at increasing the pace of hypersonic flight testing, ...
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Rocket Lab Secures 20 Hypersonic Test Flights For MACH-TB Program

The Defense Department has tapped Rocket Lab to launch its Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) rocket 20 times in four years, with the first launch expected within “months” of ...