NASA Contracts With Northrop To Support Hypersonic SkyRange

Graham Warwick December 16, 2020
A NASA RQ-4A Global Hawk is being modified to support hypersonic flight testing.
Credit: U.S. Air Force
With U.S. hypersonic weapon testing poised to ramp up, NASA has awarded Northrop Grumman Systems a $70 million contract to support the SkyRange program to field a long-range, flight-test data collection capability based on high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft. Under the five-year program...
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