Wednesday, September 18, 2013

US military wants new hypersonic space plane | Fox News

US military wants new hypersonic space plane | Fox News:
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The goals of the XS-1 include flying 10 times in 10 days, as well as achieving Mach 10
This is not a single-stage-to-orbit," she said. "This is a suborbital, hypersonic vehicle that will also allow us to do advanced hypersonic testing as well. And of course we are going to launch a payload into orbit
 We’re looking for radical and disruptive changes," said former NASA astronaut Pamela Melroy, now deputy director of the Tactical Technology Office at DARPA. "We are about demonstrations. It’s not enough to just experiment. You have to actually prove it.


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