Aerospike Engine

NASA's Lockheed SR-71 has made the first of a series of flights in support of the X-33 program, carrying a subscale linear aerospike rocket engine piggyback to test it under different flight conditions. The Oct. 31 flight from Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, Calif., was an envelope...

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