Articles tagged: scramjet

• July 2014 X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines

  ...High-speed weapons could include hypersonic cruise missiles, able to fly several hundred kilometres in a matter of minutes on scramjet power; or unpowered boostglide craft that reach hypersonic speeds on a rocket booster, and then glide at high speed...

  • Airbreathing engines
  • hypersonic
  • Mark J Lewis
  • scramjet
  • X-51A Waverider
  Authors: Mark J. Lewis    
• July 2014 The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond

  ... (HAWC) and Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) programmes. The intent of HAWC is flight demonstration of an affordable Mach 5-plus scramjet-powered cruise missile. TBG, on the other hand, aims to demonstrate a rocket-launched hypersonic glide weapon capable...

  • Boeing
  • DARPA
  • Hypersonic Air- Breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC)
  • Kevin G Bowcutt
  • two-stage-to-orbit (TSTO)
  Authors: Kevin G. Bowcutt    
• 06 January 2021 India lays out its space plans for the next 10 years

  ... vehicle development towards heavy lift capabilities, achieving partial and full reusability”, along with a focus on scramjet engine research. The Liquid Propulsion Systems Center (LPSC) is to play a role in developing a high thrust semicryogenic...

  • Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
  • ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC)
  • The Gaganyaan Programme
  • The Liquid Propulsion Systems Center (LPSC)
  • Vikram Sarabhai Space Center (VSSC)