X-43 hits 6,600 mph over Pacific Ocean
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NASA&#39;s X-43 unmanned aircraft hit a record 6,600 mph Tuesday in the program&#39;s final test flight, providing researchers with data for use on future ultra-high-speed aircraft and spacecraft.
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Last week's historic flyby of Mercury by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft gathered 500 megabytes of data and more than a thousand high-resolution photos covering nearly six million square miles of previously unseen terrain.
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The Guinness Book of Records recognises the world speed record set by Nasa's X-43A hypersonic aircraft in March.
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Airspace bar from surface to 'unlimited' altitude The US military has issued a warning notice barring flights above a large area of the northern Pacific for two and a half hours early on Thursday morning. The stricken spy satellite marked for destruction by US warships will pass over the taped-off area just at this time, indicating that the first shot will take place then.â¦
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An experimental jet engine has been  successfully tested at speeds of up to 11,000 km (6,835 miles)  per hour, or 10 times the speed of sound, during trials in  Australia's outback, defense scientists said on Friday.
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Aviation enthusiasts awaiting the historic flight of NASA's experimental X-43A 'scramjet' will have to wait another day. Mission planners hope to fly the unmanned jet at a record-breaking 7,000 mph. By Amit Asaravala.
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Typhoon Xangsane churned toward Vietnam   from the Philippines on Friday after causing at least 16 deaths   and leaving a trail of widespread destruction in its wake.
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Tropical Storm Felix, churning near the Windward Islands, became the sixth named storm of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season as its winds reached 40 miles per hour Saturday morning, the National Hurricane Center said.
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A TINY unmanned jet has soared above the Pacific Ocean at nearly ten times the speed of sound - almost 7000mph - in a record-breaking demonstration of a radical new engine technology.
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The most powerful typhoon to barrel into Japan's Pacific coastline in a decade made landfall Saturday, unleashing gusts and torrential rains that grounded planes, flooded homes and triggered landslides. One person was dead and another missing.
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A small, air-breathing test plane will attempt to blaze into history on Monday by flying at nearly 10 times the speed of sound. The hypersonic craft is one of three built by NASA for its $230-million Hyper-X project, established in 1996.
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killed up to 600 people in a part of the northern Philippines due to be hit by a typhoon in just over 24 hours. forced to carry supplies on foot after roads were cut off and bad weather grounded rescue helicopters.
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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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The most powerful typhoon to barrel into Japan&#39;s Pacific coastline in a decade made its landfall on Saturday. It unleashed gales and blinding sheets of rain that ground planes, flood homes and set off mudslides.
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The US space agency flies its X-43A hypersonic jet to a speed in excess of nine times the speed of sound.
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A privately funded spacecraft appeared to rocket past its target altitude more than 60 miles above California&#39;s high desert yesterday
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NASA engineers and researchers are gearing up to end a research program with a world-record flight approaching 7,000 mph. If weather permits, a wedge-shape X-43 unmanned craft will make the final