Jun 21, 2010
Aerospace Future: Hypersonic Weapons and Spaceships
The wealth of possibilities offered by aerospace vehicles that can ride their own shockwaves likely explains why the project has drawn support from the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), NASA, and the U.S. Navy.
“We could have in the future such things as hypersonic weapons that fly 600 nautical miles in 10 minutes,” said Charlie Brink, X-51A program manager with the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, during a June 1 teleconference.
Source: Space.com. Also read “Ottawa in Space? –Reversing the Burden of Proof Regarding Space Weapons” from the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) (PDF).
