Glad to see this. It's an enormous engineering challenge and STEM outreach/education is a large part of the project. I went to see Thrust SSC, its predecessor, being built when I was a kid. Hugely ...

I was sad to hear that this project's been all but canned. I was a supporter early on (paid to have my name written on the fin). I was surprised that it wouldn't have been picked up by someone with ...

It looks like something NASA would aim at the sky and launch into orbit but no, it’s a car. And by the time its builders’ blast it across a desert in South Africa next year, they hope to set the land ...

An Australian race crew, hoping to beat their British rivals to a new supersonic land-speed record of over 1,000mph (1,600kph), yesterday launched their bid, unveiling the first parts of their ...

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