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The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, Alliant Techsystems and the Office of Naval Research have flown a hypersonic scramjet-powered vehicle from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virgina during a pre-dawn test Saturday December 10. This was the first-ever free flight of a scramjet-powe...

The U.S. has built a brand new space shuttle, and it's ready to launch next month. It's called the X-37B/OTV. It's about one-fourth the size of the space shuttle, and it was originally intended to carry six astronauts. Now inside the hangar at Astrotech in Titusville, it's ready to launch into space b...

First Minotaur IV Lite launches from Vandenberg Team Vandenberg successfully launched the first Minotaur IV Lite launch vehicle at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 22, 2010, from Space Launch Complex-8 here. The rocket launched the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency's Falcon Hypersonic Technol...

The Boeing X-51 is an unmanned scramjet demonstration aircraft for hypersonic (Mach 6, approx. 4,000 mph or 6,400 km/h at altitude) flight testing. The X-51 WaveRider program is a consortium of the US Air Force, DARPA, NASA, Boeing and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne. [url=http://en.wikiped...

ISRO conducts flight testing of advanced sounding rocket The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully conducted the flight testing of its new generation high performance sounding rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) on Wednesday. [url=http://beta.thehindu....

Indian rockets to soon use atmospheric oxygen as fuel In an attempt to make its rockets lighter and carry heavier satellites, the Indian space agency is planning to flight test by the end of this year its own air-breathing engine that will use atmospheric oxygen as fuel. Air-breathing engines use at...

US Army tests weapon 5 times faster than sound The US Army conducted its first flight test of a new weapon capable of travelling five times the speed of sound. The Army launched the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon from the military's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai at about 1:30 am on Sunday. [url=...

Scramjet prepped for launch Preparations to fly a new high tech engine are currently underway at White Sands Missile Range. Members from Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA and the Naval Surface Warfare Centre Port Hueneme division, White Sands Detachment, are working together to ready the Hype...

X-51A Waverider: Hypersonic jet plane tested Hypersonic jet WaveRider is to undergo another test flight above the Pacific Ocean aiming to reach Mach 6. At this speed - more than 4,300 mph - it could travel from London to New York in about an h...

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Engine Scramjet Scramjet Test (Preview)	General news	6	2309	Aug 14 21:32 2012 by Blobrana
The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, Alliant Techsystems and the Office of Naval Research have flown a hypersonic scramjet-powered vehicle from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virgina during a pre-dawn test Saturday December 10. This was the first-ever free flight of a scramjet-powe...
Scramjet OTV X-37B/OTV ( 1 2 3 4 ) (Preview)	Mission News	38	9169	Dec 3 14:53 2010 by Blobrana
The U.S. has built a brand new space shuttle, and it's ready to launch next month. It's called the X-37B/OTV. It's about one-fourth the size of the space shuttle, and it was originally intended to carry six astronauts. Now inside the hangar at Astrotech in Titusville, it's ready to launch into space b...
Scramjet Hypersonic Test Vehicle 2a (Preview)	Mission News	6	2034	Apr 28 06:44 2010 by Blobrana
First Minotaur IV Lite launches from Vandenberg Team Vandenberg successfully launched the first Minotaur IV Lite launch vehicle at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 22, 2010, from Space Launch Complex-8 here. The rocket launched the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency's Falcon Hypersonic Technol...
Scramjet Boeing X-51 (Preview)	Mission News	1	1081	May 27 11:10 2010 by Blobrana
The Boeing X-51 is an unmanned scramjet demonstration aircraft for hypersonic (Mach 6, approx. 4,000 mph or 6,400 km/h at altitude) flight testing. The X-51 WaveRider program is a consortium of the US Air Force, DARPA, NASA, Boeing and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne. [url=http://en.wikiped...
Sounding rocket Scramjet ATV-D01 (Preview)	Mission News	0	1459	Mar 5 02:23 2010 by Blobrana
ISRO conducts flight testing of advanced sounding rocket The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully conducted the flight testing of its new generation high performance sounding rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) on Wednesday. [url=http://beta.thehindu....
Scramjet Sounding rocket ATV-D02 (Preview)	Mission News	0	1112	May 30 16:48 2010 by Blobrana
Indian rockets to soon use atmospheric oxygen as fuel In an attempt to make its rockets lighter and carry heavier satellites, the Indian space agency is planning to flight test by the end of this year its own air-breathing engine that will use atmospheric oxygen as fuel. Air-breathing engines use at...
Scramjet Advanced Hypersonic Weapon (Preview)	Missile	0	879	Nov 18 06:58 2011 by Blobrana
US Army tests weapon 5 times faster than sound The US Army conducted its first flight test of a new weapon capable of travelling five times the speed of sound. The Army launched the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon from the military's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai at about 1:30 am on Sunday. [url=...
Scramjet HIFiRE Flight 2 (Preview)	Missile	1	1168	Sep 30 00:25 2012 by Blobrana
Scramjet prepped for launch Preparations to fly a new high tech engine are currently underway at White Sands Missile Range. Members from Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA and the Naval Surface Warfare Centre Port Hueneme division, White Sands Detachment, are working together to ready the Hype...
Scramjet X-51A Waverider (Preview)	Missile	1	981	Aug 16 02:46 2012 by Blobrana
X-51A Waverider: Hypersonic jet plane tested Hypersonic jet WaveRider is to undergo another test flight above the Pacific Ocean aiming to reach Mach 6. At this speed - more than 4,300 mph - it could travel from London to New York in about an h...