NASA, Skunk Works drop SR-71 linear aerospike flight test
NASA and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works have scrapped plans for a hot-fire flight test of a scale-model linear aerospike rocket engine atop an SR-71 research plane because of persistent liquid oxygen leaks in the test rig, the U.S. space agency announced. Originally planned to characterize the way the...
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