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DARPA’s Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) hit approximately Mach 20 — about 13,000 miles per hour or 3.6 miles per second. DARPA claimed...
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Key Points and Summary – NASA’s X-43A was a small, unmanned Hyper-X demonstrator that proved scramjet, air-breathing propulsion at true hypersonic speed. -Air-dropped from...
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Article Summary – NASA’s Mach 10 Dream: Can the X-43A’s Legacy Go Operational? -In 2004, NASA’s X-43A set the air-breathing speed record at Mach...
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Key Points and Summary – The X-43A was a moonshot on a shoestring: three tiny, hydrogen-gulping darts flung off a B-52 and a Pegasus...
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Key Points and Summary – NASA and Grumman’s X-29 was a 1980s–90s technology demonstrator that flipped convention with forward-swept wings and canards to probe...
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Key Points – The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is reportedly working on a hypersonic bomber concept called the Next Generation Responsive Strike...