Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
NASA’s Galileo spacecraft launched aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis on October 18, 1989 and reached Jupiter on December 7, 1995 after a six-year journey involving...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
NASA’s X-43D was designed to fly at speeds approaching Mach 15 — roughly 11,000 miles per hour — using a hydrogen-fueled scramjet to sustain...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On October 3, 1967, U.S. Air Force pilot William “Pete” Knight flew the X-15A-2 to 4,520 miles per hour — Mach 6.7 — setting...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 1960, nine years before he walked on the moon, a 30-year-old test pilot named Neil Armstrong applied to fly the X-20 Dyna-Soar —...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
NASA’s X-43D was designed to fly at Mach 15 — roughly 11,400 miles per hour, fast enough to cross the Atlantic Ocean in 18...
The Treaty
Key Points and Summary – China is no longer focused only on low-Earth orbit. Beijing now treats the Moon as strategic terrain, pushing toward...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Article Summary: The Tiny “Mini Shuttle” China Fears Most: What the X-37B Really Does -America’s X-37B space plane looks like a scaled-down shuttle, but...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Space Aircraft Carrier? Key Points and Summary – SpaceWERX has tapped Seattle startup Gravitics to develop an “orbital carrier”—a pre-positioned, in-space launch pad that...