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The world’s first flight test for an aerospike rocket engine ended in disaster, but Polaris Aerospace is back on track, preparing to fly two new prototypes for its MIRA supersonic/hypersonic aerospike spaceplane platform within weeks.
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The MIRA I, from German aerospace startup Polaris Raumflugzeuge, was traveling at approximately 105 mph (169 km/h) during takeoff when a “landing gear steering reaction” plus a side wind caused a “hard landing event,” rendering the space plane inoperab… Continue reading Groundbreaking spaceplane crashes before world-first aerospike rocket test
A DARPA-led project has successfully completed the final test of Lockheed Martin’s Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) missile. Powered by an Aerojet Rocketdyne scramjet, the craft reached a speed in excess of Mach 5 over a course of 300 nm … Continue reading DARPA nails latest US hypersonic missile test flight
NASA finally got the core stage of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket up and running for the first time today, completing an eight-minute hot-fire test of its four RS025 engines at the space agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississip… Continue reading NASA’s SLS rocket engine completes successful hot-fire test
Aerojet Rocketdyne and the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have achieved a new record thrust output from a scramjet engine, providing a boost for hypersonic flight. A year of ground testing saw the engine generate 13,000 lb of thrust with over … Continue reading Aerojet Rocketdyne hypersonic scramjet engine sets new thrust record