Bloodhound SSC's cluster of rockets will use a liquid oxidizer—in this case, highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide (also known as high test peroxide or HTP)—and keep the ability to be throttled.

But even by the standards of such eccentric endeavor, the Bloodhound SSC project stands out as something special, a car that’s being built to push the land-speed record over 1000 mph.

The Bloodhound SSC is making its grand debut in London today, and I was given a guided tour of this vast and extraordinarily powerful car by a member of the team making it.

The Bloodhound SSC is the car that in 2018 will hit speeds of over 1,000 mph, breaking the land-speed record. At least, that's what its designers hope.

For about a decade now, the British Bloodhound Supersonic Car (SSC) effort has been working on a rocket-powered car it hopes to use to smash the vehicular land speed record, currently held by the ...

Bloodhound SSC, the British-built vehicle that is eventually set to become the first car to break 1,000mph (1,600km/h), has again delayed its record-breaking attempt, this time until at least ...

As Bloodhound SSC is going to be a point of British pride, a car that keeps the land speed record British (it's been ours since 1983), you'd expect the cream of Britain's engineers to be working ...

If Sheridan is correct, we may see the Bloodhound SSC thunder down the 11-mile stretch of open land already prepared for the top speed run in South Africa as soon as October of 2019.

On Thursday lunchtime on an airport runway in Newquay, Cornwall, England, the Bloodhound SSC will get its first-ever public test. It's the latest stage of a project whose eventual aim is to break ...

World land speed record holder Andy Green tested Bloodhound SSC's parachute system on a Jaguar F-TYPE R Coupé driven on a track at a former RAF base in Bentwaters, Suffolk.

Bloodhound SSC will use a combination of engines and rockets to take it up to 1,000mph, including a Eurofighter Typhoon jet engine, a hybrid rocket, and a Jaguar F-Type V8 engine to pump fuel into ...

The UK team behind the BLOODHOUND Project announced a number of significant milestones this week on the way to their goal of setting a new world land speed record. The biggest – or at least the ...