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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 and DARPA have agreed to develop and test a nuclear rocket engine in space as soon as 2027. Using a nuclear reactor as its power source, it would outperform chemical rockets and greatly reduce the time for the first crewed Mars mission.Continue Re… Continue reading DARPA and NASA plan orbital nuclear rocket test
The media got their collective knickers in a twist this week with the news that Wyoming is banning the sale of electric vehicles in the state. Headlines like that certainly …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: January 22, 2023
DARPA has awarded Aurora Flight Sciences a phase 2 contract for its CRANE (Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors) program, following wind tunnel testing of a small-scale X-plane that uses compressed air bursts instead of control surfac… Continue reading Active flow control X-Plane uses virtual control surfaces made from air
The line between crewed and uncrewed aircraft has blurred even more after a Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter carried out a demonstration cargo mission as well as a medical “emergency rescue” entirely on its own without anyone aboard or human guidance.Con… Continue reading Black Hawk helicopter flies autonomous “rescue” mission without crew
DARPA has announced that it has given the green light to a new series of field tests at Camp Roberts, California, aimed at producing autonomous off-road combat vehicles that can keep up with crewed ones while driving at speed over rough ground.Continue… Continue reading DARPA tests robotic vehicles that can keep up with human drivers
The US hypersonic weapons program has reached a major milestone, with a Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) hypersonic cruise missile developed by Raytheon Technologies and Northrop Grumman completing two successful flight tests in a row.Con… Continue reading HAWC hypersonic missile chalks up two successful flights in a row
Researchers at Rice University have shown how they can hack the brains of fruit flies to make them remote controlled. The flies performed a specific action within a second of a command being sent to certain neurons in their brain.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading Scientists hack fly brains to make them remote controlled
In a double-shot of hypersonics news out of the US, the US Air Force has conducted an air-launched flight test of its AGM-183A hypersonic missile, while DARPA has successfully test fired a prototype of its Operational Fires (OpFires) system developed t… Continue reading USAF and DARPA test hypersonic weapon systems in air and on the ground
When Astra’s diminutive Rocket 3.3 lifted off from its pad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on June 12th, everything seemed to be going well. In fact, the mission …read more Continue reading NASA Mission Off To Rough Start After Astra Failure