{"id":5626,"date":"2025-05-08T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ursa-majors-hadley-engine-powers-talon-a2-to-sustained-hypersonic-speeds-with-recovery\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T00:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:00:39","slug":"ursa-majors-hadley-engine-powers-talon-a2-to-sustained-hypersonic-speeds-with-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ursa-majors-hadley-engine-powers-talon-a2-to-sustained-hypersonic-speeds-with-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ursa Major\u2019s Hadley Engine Powers Talon-A2 to Sustained Hypersonic Speeds with Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/hadley_cover_638822085759308752.png\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Ursa Major\u2019s Hadley Engine Powers Talon-A2 to Sustained Hypersonic Speeds with Recovery\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/hadley_cover_638822085759308752.png\" style=\"opacity: 0;\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/hadley_cover_638822085759308752.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ursa Major<\/strong>&#8216;s Hadley liquid rocket engine designed for commercial space and national security needs, successfully achieved sustained hypersonic speeds during two separate tests conducted since late 2024. Both test flights exceeded flight and power objectives for Stratolaunch\u2019s Talon-A2 (TA-2) testbed and also featured the successful recovery of the hypersonic testbed vehicle post-landing for re-use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith these successful sustained hypersonic flights, Ursa Major and Stratolaunch are pushing the boundaries of hypersonic technology and building a track record of achievement. Ursa Major is answering the call from our military and government partners to innovate and meet the mission to provide critical national security capabilities, while continuing to assert ourselves as a hypersonics category leader for the warfighter,\u201d said <strong>Ursa Major CEO&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Dan Jablonsky<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget-layout related-content-also-read-box my-3\">\n<h4 class=\"mb-0\">Also Read: What are the the Different Types of Launch Vehicles used in Space?<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hadley is a 5,000-pound-thrust (lbf) liquid oxygen and kerosene, oxygen-rich staged combustion cycle reusable rocket engine for small vehicles or hypersonic applications. In addition to the two recent hypersonic flights, Hadley flew its first successful flight, achieving high supersonic speeds with Stratolaunch, completing three successful flights in one calendar year. Hadley enables the U.S. Department of Defense to field new mission solutions faster and advances performance metrics of speed, range, and payload.<\/p>\n<p>Hadley is the first product in a family of propulsion systems, including liquid rocket engines, solid rocket motors, and in-space propulsion systems, being designed, developed, and produced by Ursa Major.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clcik here to learn more about Ursa Major&#8217;s Hadley Engine<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ursa Major&#8216;s Hadley liquid rocket engine designed for commercial space and national security needs, successfully achieved sustained hypersonic speeds during two separate tests conducted since late 2024. Both test flights exceeded flight and power objectives for Stratolaunch\u2019s Talon-A2 (TA-2) testbed and also featured the successful recovery of the hypersonic testbed vehicle post-landing for re-use. \u201cWith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25,58,49,36],"class_list":["post-5626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-launch","tag-launch-vehicle-engines","tag-propulsion-systems","tag-thrusters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}