US military hypersonic missile test fails after China flies one around the globe

The United States military's latest test involving hypersonic missiles failed this week just days after a report first revealed China successfully flew a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile around the earth in August before hitting its target. According to a Defense Department statement, the Pentagon conducted a "data collection experiment" on October 21 from the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, to "inform the department's hypersonic technology development," but the test was unsuccessful due to "a failure of the booster stack." "Program officials have initiated a review to determine the cause of the booster system failure to inform future tests. Experiments and…