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| 4/23/2010 successful launch of: Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 (HTV-2) |
| 2010-04-27 |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #2 So.... where is it now? |
| Posted by: Dogsbody 2010-04-27 21:49 |
| #1 US defense agency's hypersonic glider test fails The U.S. military lost contact with an experimental hypersonic glider after it was launched by a rocket on a test flight over the Pacific Ocean last week, a defense agency said. The Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 was launched Thursday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and was supposed to separate from the booster at an altitude of several hundred thousand feet and then autonomously glide at 13,000 mph to a splashdown in a sea range near Kwajalein Atoll, 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii. The separation did occur, according to a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency statement. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2010-04-27 20:46 |