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Atmospheric Speed Record Broken
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 1:41 am
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
It's been all over the news, but just in case ya missed it:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1075990.htm
It's pretty fast................I guess.
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 5:00 am
by [PX]IronFist
It's so cool to see them finally getting the scramjet engine to work. I remember reading about this technology years ago but at that point it was all theory and specualtion.
The first test of the X-43A in June 2001 ended in failure after a malfunction in the booster rocket attached to the test vehicle forced NASA scientists to blow up the plane.
That must have sucked.
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 11:07 am
by [PX]Kal Bob
they say decades before real use, funding cuts.
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 1:19 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
Yeah, I remember reading about scramjets back in the early 90's.
Well, if it all is dependant on the budget we'll never see warp speed.
NASA only spends $3 million a year on that.
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 3:08 pm
by Ghost [PX]
If I recall, A scramjet test was conducted successfully in the Australian outback last year. A university was responsible for everything and they did it on a relatively small budget..
Interesting to see others getting it to work though.
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 3:48 pm
by [PX]IronFist
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 4:21 pm
by Ghost [PX]
That would be what I was referring to.