Crash
08-11-2011, 08:46 AM
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2011-08-11-hypersonic-glider-launched_n.htm
The agency says in Twitter postings that its unmanned Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 was launched Thursday atop a rocket, successfully separated from the booster and entered the mission's glide phase.
The agency says telemetry was subsequently lost, but released no details..
A similar vehicle was launched last year and returned nine minutes of data before contact was prematurely lost.
I'm thinkin' aliens...they fear our advanced glider technology.
The U.S. military is trying to develop technology to respond to threats around the globe at speeds of Mach 20 or greater.
I've gotta admit that's pretty goddamn fast. If my math is right, that's about 4 miles/second or 15,000 miles an hour. You could fly from New York to London in fifteen minutes.
I want a hypersonic glider. :thumbup:
The agency says in Twitter postings that its unmanned Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 was launched Thursday atop a rocket, successfully separated from the booster and entered the mission's glide phase.
The agency says telemetry was subsequently lost, but released no details..
A similar vehicle was launched last year and returned nine minutes of data before contact was prematurely lost.
I'm thinkin' aliens...they fear our advanced glider technology.
The U.S. military is trying to develop technology to respond to threats around the globe at speeds of Mach 20 or greater.
I've gotta admit that's pretty goddamn fast. If my math is right, that's about 4 miles/second or 15,000 miles an hour. You could fly from New York to London in fifteen minutes.
I want a hypersonic glider. :thumbup: