![An illustration of a hypersonic vehicle. The vehicle is skinny, long, and somewhat rectangular from overhead with delta wings. It is covered in black tiles and has the NASA logotype and logo.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/render-01.png?w=1024)
![An angled, rectangular block of metal fires into a round exhaust duct. Mist flows over the corners and around the whole model.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/7f8c8c6e-f768-4331-95f9-7e3423518ca6-3.jpg?w=1024)
![Test hardware pressed in the middle of a chamber with glowing coils.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/20160324-thermal-barrier-high-temp-compression-test-picture-5.jpg?w=819)
Hypersonic Technology Project
NASA is working to enable routine, reusable, airbreathing hypersonic flight by conducting fundamental and applied research to enable a broad spectrum of hypersonic systems and missions.
Project Manager
Mary Jo Long-Davis
Deputy Project Manager
Andrea Storch
Boundary Layer Turbulence 2 Flight
A two-stage suborbital sounding rocket launched in March 2022 to study boundary layer transition, turbulent heating, and drag on vehicles flying at hypersonic conditions.
Learn More About Test Flight about Boundary Layer Turbulence 2 Flight![A metal tube with a four-sided, pointed tip strapped to a work table.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/boltii-wff-2022.jpg?w=2048)
Research Topic Areas
The Hypersonic Technology (HT) Project organizes its work into distinct research topic areas.
HT explores four key topics in hypersonics: system-level design, analysis, and validation; propulsion technologies, vehicles technologies; and high-temperature, durable materials.
Read More About Hypersonic Research Topic Areas![A wireframe image of an aircraft being designed.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/picture-2.png?w=1024)
Technical Challenges
The Hypersonic Technology project works toward accomplishing specific technical challenges.
Hypersonic Technology works on turbine-based combined cycle propulsion mode testing, as well as development of improved combustor scaling laws for dual-mode ramjets. The project recently completed a method of system-level uncertainty quantification and a means of validating it.
Read More About Hypersonic Technical Challenges![A research test rocket launch](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/lift-off-with-spin-motors-crop.jpg?w=781)