At 13,000 MPH, DARPA’s Falcon HTV-2 Could Fly From NYC to LA in Under 12 Minutes at Mach 20, Nobody Has Built Anything Faster

At 13,000 MPH, DARPA’s Falcon HTV-2 Could Fly From NYC to LA in Under 12 Minutes at Mach 20, Nobody Has Built Anything Faster

DARPA’s Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) hit roughly Mach 20 — about 13,000 miles per hour or 3.6 miles per second. DARPA claimed the Falcon might fly from New York City to Los Angeles in beneath 12 minutes. Nobody has constructed something sooner than DARPA’s Falcon HTV-2. The Falcon HTV-2 was an unmanned launch…

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SpaceX seeks second attempt at Falcon Heavy launch following weather scrub on Monday – Spaceflight Now

SpaceX seeks second attempt at Falcon Heavy launch following weather scrub on Monday – Spaceflight Now

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket stands within the vertical launch place forward of the flight of the ViaSat-3 Flight 3 mission for Viasat. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now SpaceX will strive once more Wednesday to launch its Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, following a last-minute scrub Monday on account of poor weather. The heavy…

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SpaceX launches 1,000th Starlink satellite of 2026 on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now

SpaceX launches 1,000th Starlink satellite of 2026 on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now

A streak shot of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket because it tears away from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the Starlink 10-24 mission on April 14, 2026. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now SpaceX launched its 1,000th Starlink satellite to date in 2026 with an early morning Falcon 9 rocket launch Tuesday…

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