The United States military had to delay a test of its new hypersonic weapons system due to rocket failure, according to Reuters on Thursday. A booster rocket with a hypersonic glide body attached failed to launch during a test at Kodiak, Alaska, according to ABC News. The aborted launch was part of the joint 'Dark Eagle' program jointly run by the Army and Navy... ...It comes after it was revealed that China carried out a second test.. believed to have taken place on August 13