Ramjets and Scramjets News

Japan to Talk With NASA on Supersonic Jet

Posted at: Mon May 8th, 2006

TOKYO -- Stung by repeated setbacks, Japan's space agency plans to start talks next month with NASA about jointly developing a supersonic successor to the retired Concorde, an official said Monday. Japan is trying to leapfrog ahead in the aerospace field with a plan to build a next-g...

HyShot scramjet experiment blasts off in South Australian desert

Posted at: Sat Mar 25th, 2006

A $2 million scramjet experiment was launched at Woomera, 500km north of Adelaide, South Australia at approximately 1.45pm local time. The University of Queensland-led HyShot™ III experiment uses a scramjet engine developed by UK company, QinetiQ. The scramjet was a...

Scientists gear up for new scramjet tests

Posted at: Thu Mar 23rd, 2006

A new scramjet engine, shaped like a bullet, will be tested in the Australian desert tomorrow by an international team of scientists that hopes it will be more efficient than previous designs. Australian researchers from the HyShot Flight Program at the Universi...