Hypersonic plane project confirmed by DARPA
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Retro 60s tech unlikely to melt much tinfoil The US Air Force (USAF) has inked a deal with DARPA* - the famously luncheoning-elsewhere Pentagon boffinry outfit - to collaborate on a "combined cycle hypersonic vehicle that could take off and land like a plane", according to reports.â¦
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LOS ANGELES NASA will try again today to fly an unmanned hypersonic jet designed to reach a record speed of Mach Ten, or seven-thousand-miles-per-hour.
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Successful Oz launch of HyCAUSE Australia's Woomera Test Facility last Friday hosted the successful launch and firing of a scramjet engine which reached speeds of "up to Mach 10", the country's Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) has announced.â¦
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Darpa, the Pentagon's mad science division, got a $324 million boost in the Defense Department's new budget -- a 10 percent increase. Which means lots more cash for giant blimps, next-gen wireless networks, Mach 6 planes, shape-shifting drones, and improvised bomb-beaters.
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NASA&#39;s third and final test of the X-43A scramjet ended successfully yesterday when the vehicle reached a velocity of almost Mach 9.8 over the Pacific.
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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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When the Hypersonic Missile Technology team at COLSA Corporation and the U.S. Army need to model hypersonic flight on a computer system, they&#146;ll no longer have to wait two months to get results. They now can use one of the world&#146;s largest and most powerful computers: a supercluster of 1,566 64-bit, dual-processor Apple Xserve G5 servers. [Sep 14]
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A firm says it has designed a hypersonic passenger plane that could fly to Australia in less than five hours.
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The Pentagon's costliest acquisition  project, the F-35 Lightning 2 Joint Strike Fighter, safely  completed its first test flight Friday, advancing a $276.5  billion program co-financed by the United States and eight  nations.
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In March, NASA (news - web sites) launched an experimental jet that reached a record-setting speed of about 5,000 mph. Now researchers want to leave that milestone in the dust.
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Unscrewing the inscrutable DARPA*, the mad-as-a-bottle-of-crisps Pentagon warboffinry operation, has struck again - this time awarding a $13m contract to the University of Southern California to develop technology which will ensure that imported integrated circuits (ICs) used by the US military are trustworthy.â¦
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The Guinness Book of Records has officially recognised the world speed record set by Nasa&#39;s X-43A hypersonic aircraft earlier this year.
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Mojave, Calif. - A team of pilots and aerospace engineers on Wednesday took the first step toward a $10 million prize by sending its rocket plane 64 miles above the Mojave Desert.
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To join DARPA airship-bot flotilla 12 miles up Fuelled by a seemingly inexhaustible stream of federal military/security research cash, the US flying-robot industry seems to produce fresh wonders every day.â¦
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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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NASA has awarded a $330.6 million contract to the aerospace company Lockheed Martin to design and build a robot spaceship to carry replacement parts to the Hubble Space Telescope to keep it operating for another five to seven years.
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A US hypersonic experimental scramjet, the X-43A, clocked up a test flight on Tuesday at a world record speed 10 times faster than sound, NASA said.