X-43 Hyper-X Program News

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...

Towards air-breathing rockets

Posted at: Thu Jan 19th, 2006

THE INDIAN Space Research Organisation (ISRO) added another feather to its cap when it successfully tested the use of oxygen moving at a speed of Mach 6 — six times the speed of sound — in laboratory conditions to produce a stable supersonic combustion lasting for a few seconds.

Wright-Pat scramjet earns X-plane status from the Pentagon

Posted at: Fri Dec 23rd, 2005

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE | The Pentagon has given X-plane status to a $212 million program aimed at test-flying a revolutionary jet engine developed at Wright-Patterson, the Air Force Research Laboratory announced this week.