... made in the areas of strategic conventional weapon systems – for example, the development of advanced cruise missiles and hypersonic glide vehicles – it is essential for NATO and its allies to be able to rely upon space-based systems for...
... Atmospheric re-entry shielding Atmospheric re-entry is among the harshest environments a spacecraft can encounter. Travelling at hypersonic velocities, the interaction of the spacecraft with atmospheric particles generates extremely high heat fluxes...
... increase in their FY23 budget to $24.5 billion, reflecting the urgency to launch and defend satellites that can detect a hypersonic missile, track a moving truck and assure US nuclear command and control. At the same time this year...
... notice. However, if this same pieces of debris were spinning one metre above the surface of our planet at hypersonic speed and approaching from every direction, every human being, not to mention everything we have built over...
... develop SABRE™, a highly scalable, innovative, new class of engine that is a leading contender for the next generation of hypersonic flight and space access vehicles. SABRE, which stands for Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine, is a breakthrough...
... system that starts by spinning a vehicle up to 5,000 miles per hour around a centrifuge, before hurling it into space at hypersonic speeds. The approach might seem more in keeping with the latest attraction at a theme-park, but the...