Australian Scramjet-Powered Vehicle Makes First Hypersonic Test Flight
Credit: Hypersonix Launch Systems
An Australian-made hypersonic vehicle completed its first flight late on Feb. 27, propelled to Mach 5-plus speeds by a Rocket Lab HASTE rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia. The scramjet-powered, 3.5-m.-long (11.5 ft) Dart AE vehicle executed a hypersonic mission and gathered technical data, which...
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