Kratos Defense announces launch, flight of Kratos Erinyes Hypersonic Test Bed

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced that its Space & Missile Defense Systems Business Unit, a part of Kratos’ Defense & Rocket Support Systems Division, supported the Missile Defense Agency and the Naval Surface Warfare Center, in the successful launch and flight of the Kratos Erinyes Hypersonic Test Bed, on June 12, 2024, from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. This first flight of the Erinyes vehicle demonstrates a new and novel platform capability for rapid hypersonic experimentation for the U.S. Department of Defense. The exercise, designated Hypersonic Test Bed-1, demonstrated hypersonic flight that enabled the collection of data for multiple experiments to be provided to test teams for design validation and evaluation of new technologies.