NASA Shoots for Mach 10
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The agency plans to prove that the 40-year-old dream of "hypersonic" flight -- using air-breathing engines to reach speeds above 3,800 mph is a reality.  -The Washington Post
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NASA is preparing to launch a nimble spacecraft to detect the most violent explosions in the cosmos and study their afterglow for hints of their origin.
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An experimental NASA jet has flown at just under 10 times the speed of sound, a record that is a step forward for the plane and its experimental scramjet engine.
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NASA's thermal-imaging sensor helps fight the flames.
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LOS ANGELES: NASA has delayed a planned flight of an unmanned hypersonic jet designed to reach a record speed of Mach 10 (11,200km/h).
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LOS ANGELES - A private spacecraft is to shoot beyond Earth&#39;s atmosphere for the second time in a week today in a bid to win a US$10 million ($15 million) prize and prove that space is open for business.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - A privately built rocket plane  blasted straight up through blue skies above the Mojave desert  on Monday and reached its target altitude in a bid to win a $10  million prize for the first commercially viable manned  spacecraft, flight controllers said.
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Imagine travelling from Los Angeles to New Delhi in little over an hour. Or completing a round of the globe in five hours flat. On Tuesday, NASA moved the concept of dream planes closer to reality as its hypersonic
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LOS ANGELES -- The future of hypersonic flight is uncertain, but next week a tiny unmanned NASA jet will try to hurtle into that unknown on a one-way trip at 10 times the speed of sound.
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An unmanned NASA jet was launched over the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday in a bid to demonstrate a radical new engine technology by flying at a world-record 7,000 mph - almost 10 times the speed of sound.
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The US space agency NASA plans to launch an experimental aircraft Monday that it hopes will set a new world record for air speed. If weather permits, an unpiloted wedge-shaped X-43 aircraft
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EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, United States : A US hypersonic experimental scramjet, the X-43A, clocked up a test flight at a world record speed 10 times faster than sound, NASA said.
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A tiny unmanned NASA &quot;scramjet&quot; soared above the Pacific Ocean yesterday at nearly 10 times the speed of sound, or almost 7,000 mph, in a record-breaking demonstration of a radical new engine technology.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The United States   begins its next step in human space flight with the   announcement by NASA on Thursday of a contractor to design and   build spaceships to fly to the moon.
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The experimental scramjet engine is one that researchers hope will lead to super-high speed flight.
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A tiny unmanned NASA &quot;scramjet&#39;&#39; soared above the Pacific Ocean Tuesday at nearly 10 times the speed of sound, or almost 7,000 mph (11,263 kph), in a record-breaking demonstration of a radical new engine technology.
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A NASA experiment that could help shape the future of space exploration as part of a new generation of potentially life-saving space crafts has launched