Japan, France Start Spaceplane Tests

TRANSONIC DROP TESTS French space agency CNES has started drop testing a high-speed transonic flight demonstrator developed by NASDA and the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan. Three or four flight tests are planned by mid-July. During each test the demonstrator, a quarter-scale model of the...

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