{"id":12480,"date":"2025-07-29T18:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T18:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/hermeus-rapid-iteration-on-track-to-mach-3-prototype-by-yearend\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T18:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T18:12:38","slug":"hermeus-rapid-iteration-on-track-to-mach-3-prototype-by-yearend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/hermeus-rapid-iteration-on-track-to-mach-3-prototype-by-yearend\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermeus Rapid Iteration on Track to Mach 3 Prototype by Yearend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Website design <\/p>\n<div id=\"page\">\n\t\t<main id=\"main\"><\/p>\n<nav aria-label=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<p>Home<span> \u00bb <\/span>Energy<span> \u00bb <\/span><span>Hermeus Rapid Iteration on Track to Mach 3 Prototype by Yearend<\/span><\/p>\n<\/nav>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>In May, 2025, hypersonic plane developer Hermeus flew its Quarterhorse Mk 1 prototype. It flew at Edwards Air Force Base. They are showing rapid, iterative development. They got a flying prototype in 20 months. It was 204 days from the completed design to the flying prototype.<\/p>\n<p>The Quarterhouse Mk2 that will fly at Mach 3 should fly before the end of the year. The plan is to fly it within 150 days.<\/p>\n<p>21 days from arrival to 130-knot taxi.<br \/>\n6 days from ops restart to flight.<br \/>\n20 months from first requirements to wheels up.<\/p>\n<p>They are analyzing flight data and rolling those insights straight into Quarterhorse Mk 2\u2014already in production at their Atlanta headquarters.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B0wxWGTSKd0?si=7uNHBFfOdNeIEns5\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-3.54.45-PM.jpg\" alt width=\"721\" height=\"391\"  ><\/p>\n<p>Hermeus Mk2 is under development. the Mk2 will the first supersonic version for Hermeus. It will go Mach 3 and be the size of an F16.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-3.55.01-PM.jpg\" alt width=\"703\" height=\"406\"  ><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-4.02.04-PM.jpg\" alt width=\"513\" height=\"298\"  ><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-3.59.54-PM-1024x546.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"546\"  ><\/p>\n<div itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" itemscope itemprop=\"author\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2020\/08\/brianheadshot.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" alt itemprop=\"image\"><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"description\">\n<p>Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology.<\/p>\n<p>Known for identifying cutting edge technologies, he is currently a Co-Founder of a startup and fundraiser for high potential early-stage companies. He is the Head of Research for Allocations for deep technology investments and an Angel Investor at Space Angels.<\/p>\n<p>A frequent speaker at corporations, he has been a TEDx speaker, a Singularity University speaker and guest at numerous interviews for radio and podcasts.\u00a0 He is open to public speaking and advising engagements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/main>\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website design Home \u00bb Energy \u00bb Hermeus Rapid Iteration on Track to Mach 3 Prototype by Yearend In May, 2025,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7282,"featured_media":12481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}