Ramjets and Scramjets News Archive

Japan to Talk With NASA on Supersonic Jet
Posted on: Mon May 8th, 2006 | latimes.com

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.

HyShot scramjet experiment blasts off in South Australian desert
Posted on: Sat Mar 25th, 2006 | uq.edu.au

A $2 million scramjet experiment was launched at Woomera, 500km north of Adelaide, South Australia at approximately 1.45pm local time.

Scientists gear up for new scramjet tests
Posted on: Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 | abc.net.au

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.

Towards air-breathing rockets
Posted on: Thu Jan 19th, 2006 | hindu.com

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 on: Fri Dec 23rd, 2005 | aimpoints.hq.af.mil

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.