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Wayne Hill's Blog: Falcon hypersonic HTV-2 flight anomaly (1969-12-31)
America’s latest super weapon. Able to strike any target in the world in less than an hour the recent flight of the Falcon hypersonic HTV-2 proved to be a bit tricky. Launched on top of a ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: DARPA's Falcon HTV-2 to go hypersonic on April 20th (2010-04-18)Parabolic Arc reports that the Falcon HTV-2 will launch from Vandenburg atop a Minotaur Lite rocket. If successful, it will transverse about 4,100 nautical miles of the Pacific in less than 30 ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: DARPA Now Knows What Happen To The HTV-2 (2010-11-16)It took six months, but the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency finally has a handle on what caused its hypersonic weapon prototype to ?terminate? itself over the Pacific Ocean back in ... [Read More]
Wayne Hill's Blog: DARPA to fund Interstellar Space Travel (2011-08-30)The is the best news I’ve read in a while. Not much money though. Hopefully it will lead to some new technologies or enhance some great propulsion concepts.Do we have any Zephram Cochranes out ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: 100-year starship projects (2012-05-23)Tonight, High Power Rocketry points us to a proposed fantasy-scale project that would Build the Enterprise . The term fantasy-scale, borrowed from NAR contest rocketry, implies a flying ... [Read More]
Wayne Hill's Blog: DARPA's plan for launching small satellites : ALASA (2015-02-06)DARPA has a concept program called ALASA(Airborne Launch Assist Space Access) that uses small jets to assist in launching small payloads into orbit. “DARPA’s Airborne Launch Assist Space ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: THE CONCEPTS WERE THERE; SO WERE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. SO WHAT HAPPENED? AND IS ARES NEXT? (2009-08-23)By Shelby G. Spires Times Aerospace Writer The American space program has no set goals, faces changing priorities and has axed multi-billion dollar projects every few years. A few examples: NASA ... [Read More]
Model Rocketry India Blog: In the Field of Model Rocketry - Pratham Ambla (2009-09-22)• My Name is Pratham Ambla, a student of third year B.sc (Electronics) but enthusiast of rocketry, astronomy and space science. A childhood passion for the same leads my association with the ... [Read More]
Model Rocketry India Blog: 1st Vikram Sarabhai Model Rocket competition - 2003 (2009-09-23)• First time in India, Mr. Pratham Ambla was introduced and instrumental in organizing the 1st Vikram Sarabhai Model Rocket Competition in 2003, which was overwhelmed by 215 participants from ... [Read More]
Model Rocketry India Blog: 2nd Vikram Sarabhai Model Rocket Competition - 2004 (2009-09-23)• In January 2004, 2nd Vikram Sarabhai Model Rocket Competition was organized at a State Level. • 178 Participants from various places of Gujarat like Visnagar, Vadodara, Anand, Gandhinagar, ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Unlearned lessons of the X-15 (2010-02-01)I really don't like reading on a computer. Especially a netbook. Maybe a e-reader designed for this would be better. Anyway, I started looking at "X-15: Extending the Frontiers of ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: A Thursday twofer - the Falcon HTV-2 also launched yesterday (2010-04-23)The first Minotaur IV Lite launch vehicle roars into the skies above California carrying DARPA's Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 on April 22, 2010. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: USAF Lost Contact With It's New Mach 20 Hypersonic Glider During Test Flight (2010-04-27)Launched from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. on April 22, the unmanned HTV-2 was planned to cross the Pacific and impact the ocean north of Kwajalein Atoll in the first of two flights to demonstrate ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Scramjet Powers Historic First Flight of X-51A WaveRider (2010-05-30)PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, May 27, 2010 Source: Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne The X-51A WaveRider hypersonic vehicle, powered by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's scramjet engine, achieved ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Modified X-51A Waverider Ready for Next Hypersonic Test (2011-03-20)United States Air Force engineers currently plan to fly the second X-51A Waverider hypersonic flight test demonstrator as early as next Tuesday, programme officials said earlier this week. "We are ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: More information about the HIBEX ABM Tests (2011-05-02)"HIBEX (High Booster Experiment) was a 2-year research project to investigate the technology of a very high acceleration, short range anti-ballistic missile interceptor, for hard point: defense. The ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Falcon HTV-2 is on-track updated (2011-08-11)DARPA was giving some mission status via Twitter and reports that they lost telemetry after the HTV-2 successfully entered the glide phase about 30 minutes ago. The attached graphic depicts the ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: HTV-2 Collects Only Nine Minutes Of Data Before Communications Are Lost (2011-08-12)Source: DARPA We don't know what happen but the HTV-2 collected unique data during several phases of the flight. DARPA attempted to fly the fastest aircraft ever built. The Agency?s Falcon ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Crowdsourcing the next great UAV (2011-10-06)Via the Wired Danger Room : Darpa is holding a contest to design the military’s next spy mini-drone. So far, the entrants include a flying pogo stick, a sail that lands on mosques, and an ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: .50 BMG Flechette anti-tank round - DU (Depleted Uranium) (2011-11-13)"The auctioneer claims that it is only one of twelve built and the only other known example resides at the Ford Benning sniper school. The .50 BMG Flechette rifle project was contacted out by DARPA ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Army hypersonic success (2011-11-17)Space.com reports that the Army's AHW (Advanced Hypersonic Weapon) had a flawless first flight, streaking across the Pacific at "several times the speed of sound." To be considered hypersonic, that ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Feed reader stars and interesting links (2012-02-03)Mavericks, Paton Group, and Inspirtech to open 5 Space Education Research Center s, ROL - "The Mavericks Civilian Space Foundation, The Paton Group, and Inspirtech LLC today announce the ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Links roundup (2012-04-23)Falcon 9/Dragon Launch Delayed One Week - Parabolic Arc Graupel alert! - DCist - before this Spring, I had never heard of graupel. More info in coming out about Planetary Resources in ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Links roundup (2012-07-12)Boris Katan's HellBoy, set up to fly on 19 E9's NASA Johnson Space Center’s Shuttle II (1988) , Wired Science (7/12, Portree) A Bugatti spaceship from Elysium has crashed into the San ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Links roudup (2012-09-05)from “Nuclear-powered aircraft” (“Применение... , xplanes (9/5) DARPA's Cheetah Bolts Past the Competition (video) - Worlds fastest legged robot hits 29+ mph. ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: UAV + remote manipulator arm (2012-12-12)A DARPA-funded research team has successfully demonstrated the precise, automatic placement of objects using a UAV outfitted with a remote manipulator arm. The UAV is the MLB Company’s V-Bat ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Vortex Rocket Engine Technology Looks Promising (2013-01-17)The inner surfaces of rocket engines can be subjected to extremely high heat. Temperatures as high as 3227°C (5800°F) can result from the powerful, thrust-generating exothermal reaction ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: New hypersonic space plane and precision munitions proficiency (2013-09-18)I found both these items vis the Unwanted Blog. First up is an artist's concept of DARPA's Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program . They have issued an RFI for a hypersonic 'airplane like' vehicle ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Photos for while the paint is drying... (2014-04-01)I'm taking advantage of the great weather to paint the POS SPEV build. Keeping with the trashy nature of the beast, I laid on a coat of Rustoleum gloss black directly onto the untreated tube. I'll ... [Read More]
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