Source: United States & Canada – South China Morning PostThe Pentagon’s hypersonic weapons programme suffered a setback on Thursday when a booster rocket carrying a hypersonic weapon failed, people briefed on the test result said.The test was intended to validate aspects of one of the Pentagon’s hypersonic glide vehicles in development, two of the people said.Hypersonic glide vehicles are launched from a rocket in the upper atmosphere before gliding to a target at speeds of more than five times the speed of sound, or about 3,853mph (6,200km/h).In a…Read More