X-43 Hyper-X Program Image Gallery
NASA is using the Hyper-X vehicles to test propulsion technologies that could be applied to future reusable space launchers and hypersonic aircraft.
While vehicles with conventional rocket engines carry oxygen on board, the air-breathing Hyper-X vehicles ingest and compress oxygen from the atmosphere using the vehicle airframe.
This type of propulsion system could potentially increase payload capacity on future vehicles since no onboard supply of oxidizer would be required.
X-43 Hyper-X Program Images:
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- Scientists gear up for new scramjet tests
- Towards air-breathing rockets
- Wright-Pat scramjet earns X-plane status from the Pentagon
- Guinness Recognizes NASA Scramjet
- Boeing to Use X-43A Flight Test Results for Future Hypersonic Applications
- Superfast Nasa jet pushes Mach 10
- NASA 'Scramjet' to Launch on Mach 10 Flight Today
- Wired.com: NASA to Attempt Mach 10 Flight
- X-43A Mach 10 flight attempt postponed - no earlier than Nov. 15
- X-43A Flight Schedule Update
- Mach 10 Free Flight of Hypersonic X-43A Slated for November
- X-43A captive carry rehearsal flight successful
- X-43A Status Update: Captive Carry Rehearsal Flight Postponed
- X-43A: Full Speed Ahead to Mach 10
- Hyper-X Team Proposing Follow-On Hypersonics Program
- NASA Proves Scramjets Work
- New aircraft 'could fly Moscow-New York in under an hour'
- U.S. Air Force Moves Ahead With Studies On Air-Breathing Engines
