July 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
... was in turn constructed by the Rocketdyne Corporation1, burning a relatively conventional jet fuel. Scramjets had long been seen as a ..., including the X-51A, produce efficient lift with relatively low drag. Sharp leading edges and pointed noses also...
July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
...hypersonic flight have, for the past five decades, eluded us Relatively close on the heels of these two successes come DARPA’s ...practical hypersonic global and space transportation. Someday relatively soon, when hypersonic vehicles are technically and...
February 2016
How to Build Planets
...the Solar System The origins of a protoplanetary disc start in the relatively small fraction of gas that exists in dense, molecular clouds. These...out of the system. Not only that but if the relative velocity of the colliding grains is too large, the ...
February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... from integration and waiting facilities there would be relatively little required to adapt existing facilities to Virgin’s... this would be an ideal site.’ Brancaster was also relatively near Hatfield, Stevenage, and London, all important centres ...
March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
...dazzling’, cyber and other electronic methods. Secrecy and the relative ignorance of space matters among large swathes of the policymaking...programmes of the US, Russia and China, and the relative ignorance of space matters among large swathes of the ...
October 2016
Project MOONWALK
...the focus of the MOONWALK project, YEMO was a relatively simple robot with limited capabilities. However, depending on ... beacons attached to the astronaut and works for any relative constellation of rover and astronaut. Bio-monitoring Monitoring the...
