Interesting Engineering on MSN10h
How Elon Musk's SpaceX accidentally helped DARPA build a 'rocket radar'How Elon Musk's SpaceX accidentally helped DARPA build a 'rocket radar'
DARPA's AtmoSense program uses Earth's atmosphere as a global sensor to detect disturbances like underground explosions and ...
The Debrief1d
DARPA is Using Earth’s Atmosphere as a Sensor to Detect Secret Explosions and Spacecraft Reentries
DARPA is using Earth’s atmosphere as a powerful sensor, allowing the detection of events like rocket reentries and illicit ...
Hackaday5y
3D Printing May Be The Key To Practical Scramjets
DARPA and the US Air Force now want to take ... the Waverider had to be carried aloft by a B-52 bomber, but a hypersonic cruise missile small enough to be carried by a fighter jet would be faster ...
TWZ on MSN5mon
ARRW Hypersonic Missile Program Gets New Funding Despite Signs Of Cancellation
“The Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) program is a joint DARPA/U.S. Air Force (USAF) effort that aims to develop and demonstrate ...
NextBigFuture9d
Kratos Hypersonic Drone to Compete with Venus Aerospace and Hermeus
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has unveiled an internally funded effort to develop a hypersonic drone capable of ...
The Aviationist on MSN10d
Boeing and Lockheed Martin Each Flew an X-Plane in Preparation for NGAD
“Under research and development contracts with DARPA, Boeing and Lockheed Martin designed two X-planes as risk reduction for ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN4d
3D simulations reveal disturbances at hypersonic speeds, flow patterns create challenges
Using powerful supercomputers and cutting-edge software, scientists have conducted the first-ever fully 3D simulations of ...
The Debrief5d
New Hypersonic Flight Simulations Just Revealed Something “Shocking” that Researchers Didn’t Expect
Hypersonic vehicles' complex interactions with gases in the air are revealed for the first time in a new 3D simulation.