DARPA has confirmed the splash down of its unmanned Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV-2) following the hypersonic vehicle's second test flight on August 11. While a "controlled descent" ...
DARPA has revealed why the Falcon HTV-2’s maiden flight ended in the aircraft self-destructing … Six months after its maiden flight ended in the aircraft self-destructing, the US Defense Advanced ...
Aerodynamic design validated and new understanding of thermal material properties gained Following an extensive seven-month analysis of data collected from the Aug. 11, 2011, second flight of DARPA’s ...
NEW YORK — An ultrafast U.S. military drone that streaked across the sky at nearly 21,000 kilometers per hour and met its demise in the Pacific was doomed by the excessive heat of hypersonic travel, ...
DARPA launched the arrowhead-shaped HTV-2 flight on Aug. 11 in the second of two tests of a prototype for a hypersonic glider as part of the advanced Conventional Prompt Global Strike weapons program, ...
The U.S. Defense Advance Research Project Agency provided more details about its aborted hypersonic mission Thursday after the craft lost contact with the agency and prematurely plunged into the ...
Aerodynamic design validated and new understanding of thermal material properties gained Following an extensive seven-month analysis of data collected from the Aug. 11, 2011, second flight of DARPA’s ...