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The 99.7-foot-long (30 m), 29.5-foot-wide (9 m) aircraft is designed to reach a speed of Mach 1.4, or 925 mph (1489 kph), while flying at an altitude of 55,000 feet (16,764 m). The X-59 is powered.
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NASA Dryden X43A Photo Collection
The NASA X-43 was an experimental unmanned hypersonic aircraft with multiple planned scale variations meant to test various aspects of hypersonic flight. It was part of the X-plane series and specifically of NASA's Hyper-X program developed in the late 1990s. It set several airspeed records for jet aircraft. The X-43 is the fastest jet-powered aircraft on record at approximately Mach 9.6.
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X43A EC0100795 The X43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus¨ booster
10 January 2024. Artist's impression of the X-59 plane. Lockheed Martin. NASA is preparing to publicly unveil an experimental aircraft designed to reach supersonic speeds without the disruptive.
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NASA's X-43A or Hyper-X air vehicle achieved a record-breaking speed of close to Mach 10 (12,000km/hr or 7,000mph) in a test flight in November 2004, which was the culmination of a three-flight test program. Hyper-X is an experimental hypersonic flight research program managed by the NASA Langley Center at Hampton, Virginia.
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X43c Aircraft Photograph by Nasa Fine Art America
The X-43A aircraft was essentially a small unpiloted test vehicle that measured just over 3.7 m (12 feet) in length. It featured a lifting body design, where the body of the aircraft is such so as.
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The NASA X-43 was an experimental unmanned hypersonic aircraft with multiple planned scale variations meant to test various aspects of hypersonic flight. It was part of the X-plane series and specifically of NASA 's Hyper-X program developed in the late 1990s. [1] It set several airspeed records for jet aircraft.
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The final X-43A mission is expected to be the last research mission for NASA's venerable B-52B "mothership" heavy launch aircraft, which is due to be retired in the near future after almost 50 years of service.
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http://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/x43-main.htmlX-43A Raises the Bar to Mach 9.6Guinness World Records recognized NASA's X-43A scramjet with a new world s.
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NASA X-43A, also known as a Hyper-X Research Vehicle (HXRV), was one of the different NASA's uncrewed hypersonic aircraft designed with the innovative scramjet propulsion technology to fly at high speeds and high altitudes.
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NASA Dryden X43A Photo Collection
The third X-43A hypersonic research aircraft, attached to a modified Pegasus booster rocket, was taken to launch altitude by NASA's B-52B launch aircraft from the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, CA, on November 16, 2004. NASA/Carla Thomas
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NASA X-59 Rollout Ceremony. NASA will provide live coverage as it reveals its X-59 aircraft at 4 p.m. EST on Friday, Jan. 12, as part of the agency's Quesst mission to make commercial supersonic flight possible. Details. Date. January 12, 2024. Time. 4:00 pm. Timezone. Select Your Location or Timezone Abidjan Accra Addis Ababa Algiers Asmara.
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11 remarkable images of NASA X43A hypersonic aircraft
This 32-second video shows the successful launch of the NASA's X-43A from B-52 Mothership on its second test flight. Show more Show more
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1 min read X-43A (Hyper-X) NASA Mar 07, 2016 Image Article Four decades of supersonic-combustion ramjet propulsion research culminated in a successful flight of the X-43A hypersonic technology demonstrator in March 2004, the first time a scramjet-powered aircraft had flown freely.
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The X-43A was a small experimental research aircraft designed to flight-demonstrate the technology of airframe-integrated supersonic ramjet or "scramjet" propulsion at hypersonic speeds above Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound. Its scramjet engine is an air-breathing engine in which the airflow through the engine remains supersonic.
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NASA and Lockheed Martin have , a "quiet supersonic" aircraft that may shape the future of both military and civilian air travel. The X-59 has been under development at Lockheed Martin Skunk.
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X43b Aircraft Photograph by Nasa/science Photo Library Fine Art America
The X-43 was to be the first free-flying demonstration of an airframe-integrated, air-breathing engine and was to extend the flight range to Mach 10. Prior flight experiments conducted by the.