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Product Name: Hypersonic Research - Hyper-X
Product Description
An important part of NASA's aeronautical research involves development of
technology for future vehicles capable of airbreathing hypersonic flight, which
by definition is flight faster than Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound
(about 3300 miles per hour).
Over the past decade, NASA has conducted several hypersonic exploratory
investigations and built a technology base in such areas as hypersonic
propulsion, cryogenic fuel, materials and structures, computer science, and
integration of engines with hypersonic airframes. A technology of particular
interest is the scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) propulsion system, which
burns a mix of hydrogen carried aboard the vehicle and oxygen scooped up from
the atmosphere.
In 1997, NASA will initiate a new effort to advance hypersonic technology for
airbreathing vehicles. Called Hypersonic XVehicle (Hyper-X), it is a technology
development program intended to further expand the knowledge base in this area
of aeronautics. Successful development of the essential technologies would
afford potential for future application in global reach military aircraft or, in
space operations, as the first stage of a two stage-to-orbit vehicle.
Preliminary design, analysis and wind tunnel work was conducted in 1995-96. The
program contemplates a five-year effort, beginning in Fiscal Year 1997,
involving wind tunnel and flight tests of a subscale, unmanned experimental
airframe powered by an airframe embedded scramjet engine. Flight tests, to begin
in 1998, will be conducted at specified test points up to Mach 10.
Company Details
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