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DARPA Now Knows What Happen To The HTV-2 (2010-11-16)

It took six months, but the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency finally has a handle on what caused its hypersonic weapon prototype to ?terminate? itself over the Pacific Ocean back in ... [Read More]

THE CONCEPTS WERE THERE; SO WERE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. SO WHAT HAPPENED? AND IS ARES NEXT? (2009-08-23)

By Shelby G. Spires Times Aerospace Writer The American space program has no set goals, faces changing priorities and has axed multi-billion dollar projects every few years. A few examples: NASA ... [Read More]

USAF Lost Contact With It's New Mach 20 Hypersonic Glider During Test Flight (2010-04-27)

Launched from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. on April 22, the unmanned HTV-2 was planned to cross the Pacific and impact the ocean north of Kwajalein Atoll in the first of two flights to demonstrate ... [Read More]

Scramjet Powers Historic First Flight of X-51A WaveRider (2010-05-30)

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, May 27, 2010 Source: Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne The X-51A WaveRider hypersonic vehicle, powered by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's scramjet engine, achieved ... [Read More]

Modified X-51A Waverider Ready for Next Hypersonic Test (2011-03-20)

United States Air Force engineers currently plan to fly the second X-51A Waverider hypersonic flight test demonstrator as early as next Tuesday, programme officials said earlier this week. "We are ... [Read More]

HTV-2 Collects Only Nine Minutes Of Data Before Communications Are Lost (2011-08-12)

Source: DARPA We don't know what happen but the HTV-2 collected unique data during several phases of the flight. DARPA attempted to fly the fastest aircraft ever built. The Agency?s Falcon ... [Read More]

Vortex Rocket Engine Technology Looks Promising (2013-01-17)

The inner surfaces of rocket engines can be subjected to extremely high heat. Temperatures as high as 3227°C (5800°F) can result from the powerful, thrust-generating exothermal reaction ... [Read More]