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Hypersonic missile startup Castelion is raising $1 billion at a $13 billion valuation

The round will fund expanded production of the Blackbeard hypersonic missile and development of longer-range strike and defensive weapons [...]

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Castelion raises $1bn at $13bn to scale hypersonic weapon production

Castelion has raised $1bn at a $13bn valuation. Three SpaceX executives founded the company in 2022 to build missiles. Its first product is Blackbeard, a hypersonic strike weapon designed for quantity [...]

Match Score: 133.61

thenextweb
German defence ministry asks startup to build hypersonic spaceplane

Germany’s armed forces have commissioned Bremen-based startup Polaris to develop a two-stage, fully reusable hypersonic space plane — and given the team just three years to build it.  Dubbed Auro [...]

Match Score: 64.53

techradar
Castlelion sells affordable hypersonic Mach 5 missiles for the price of a supercar by tapping into the O&G and audio industries to get cheaper components faster

Castelion's Blackbeard hypersonic missile now costs under $300,000 per round, prompting the Navy to order 50 production units. [...]

Match Score: 60.15

thenextweb
ESA spaceplane project revives bankrupt firm’s hypersonic engine

A bankrupt company’s propulsion system for hypersonic planes is being revived by Invictus, a new European Space Agency (ESA)-backed project aiming to build and fly a hydrogen-powered spaceplane by 2 [...]

Match Score: 59.93

thenextweb
Hermeus raises $350M at a $1B valuation to build autonomous hypersonic fighters

The Los Angeles defence startup flew a demonstrator the size of an F-16 in March. A third aircraft is now in development. CEO AJ Piplica says the only way to build hypersonic aircraft at this pace is [...]

Match Score: 54.09

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The Pentagon's next big project is hypersonic scramjet cruise missiles able to evade enemy interceptors

DARPA is seeking a survivable hypersonic scramjet missile capable of confronting sophisticated air defenses while covering missions reaching 2,000 nautical miles. [...]

Match Score: 43.63

venturebeat
Perplexity AI unveils hybrid local-cloud inference system at Computex 2026

Perplexity AI, the fast-growing search startup now valued at $20 billion, unveiled what it calls the first hybrid local-server inference orchestrator at Computex 2026 on Monday night, demonstrating so [...]

Match Score: 36.05

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This US Company Just Successfully Tested a Reusable Hypersonic Rocket Plane

Stratolaunch completed two flights of its autonomous Talon-A2 rocket plane earlier this year, as the US aims to gain ground in its race for hypersonic supremacy with China. [...]

Match Score: 35.96

thenextweb
Phonak’s new EON hearing aids run two AI systems on a chip built to sip power

Phonak has launched EON, a hearing aid platform built around a newly developed processor the company calls HYPERSONIC, which it says runs two artificial intelligence systems in parallel while drawing [...]

Match Score: 35.96