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    Table displaying the number of papers presented by different countries at the 2017 AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference, highlighting China's leading output.
    A spacecraft with engines lit is flying above the Earth's atmosphere, with the planet's curving horizon and scattered clouds visible below. The spacecraft has logos of Boeing and Phantom Express.
    Boeing is building DARPA’s hypersonic Experimental Spaceplane, or XS-1, which Boeing calls Phantom Express and is seen in an artist’s rendering.
    A military jet with red star insignia flies in the sky, carrying a missile under its body.
    Russia exhibited its air-launched hypersonic missile Kinzhal during a parade May 9.
    A high-altitude aircraft carrying a small, sleek vehicle attached beneath its wing, flying against a clear blue sky.
    The X-51A Waverider achieved Mach 5.1 after launching from a U.S. Air Force B-52H in 2013.