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NASA’s X-43A hypersonic research vehicle, part of the “Hyper-X” program, still holds the world record for an air-breathing ...
Researchers used powerful XFELs to trigger strong inner-shell lasing, producing attosecond hard X-ray pulses. Filamentation ...
Astronomers have added two more exoplanets to a growing study aimed at finding out whether rocky worlds near small, faint ...
CU Boulder scientists created a quantum device that uses cold atoms and lasers to track 3D acceleration. In a new study, ...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare and X1 flare. See time-lapses of the flares in multiple wavelengths. Credit Space.com | footage c ...
The European Space Agency revealed that a mission to create an artificial eclipse was a success. The photos will allow ...
NASA's GOLD mission found unexpected, and unexplainable, C-shapes and X-shaped formations in part of Earth's atmosphere called the ionosphere.
whereas the highest speed attained by NASA’s rocket-powered X-15 was Mach 6.7 during its flight tests in the late 1960s. The X-43A aircraft was essentially a small unpiloted test vehicle that ...
This Is Strange: The X-43A Hyper-X was NASA’s groundbreaking scramjet-powered experimental aircraft, setting records in 2004 by reaching speeds close to Mach 10. Despite its success, the U.S ...
In 2004, NASA's final X-43A unmanned prototype tests were a milestone in the latest era of jet development—the leap from ramjets to faster, more efficient scramjets. The last test, in November ...
In 2004, NASA’s final X-43A unmanned prototype tests were a milestone in the latest era of jet development — the leap from ramjets to faster, more efficient scramjets. The last test ...
NASA has shown off its new quiet supersonic aircraft, the X-59. Created along with Lockheed Martin, the aircraft is designed to reduce the sonic boom created by traveling faster than the speed of ...