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The first manufactured object to achieve hypersonic flight was the two-stage Bumper rocket, consisting of a WAC Corporal second stage set on top of a V-2 first stage. In February 1949, at White Sands, the rocket reached a speed of 8,290 km/h (5,150 mph), or about Mach 6.7. [1]
In December 2014, NASA awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to study the feasibility of building the SR-72's propulsion system using existing turbine engine technologies, The $892,292 (~$1.13 million in 2023) contract funded a design study to determine the viability of a TBCC propulsion system by combining one of several current turbine engines, with a very low Mach ignition Dual Mode Ramjet (DMRJ).
Space Transportation claims that its hypersonic plane can travel at speeds of Mach-4, which is double the speed of Concorde (Space Transportation) ... SpaceX and Tesla boss Elon Musk has also ...
On 19 December 2018, Elon Musk unveiled a 2-mile (3 km) tunnel below Los Angeles. In the presentation, a Tesla Model X drove in a tunnel on the predefined track (rather than in a low-pressure tube). According to Musk, the costs for the system are US$10 million. [50] Musk said: "The Loop is a stepping stone toward hyperloop.
Electric airplanes are practically a non-existent technology, but that could change if Elon Musk decides to put money and energy behind the particular concept he's been mulling over for a number ...
[17] [29] In March 2013 Musk said that SpaceX hoped to reach hypersonic speed before the end of 2013. [53] In March 2013, it was announced that the second Grasshopper-class suborbital flight vehicle would be constructed out of the Falcon 9 v1.1 first-stage tank that had been used for qualification testing in Texas at the SpaceX Rocket ...
The legendary Skunk Works had a hand in developing Tom Cruise’s fastest plane yet. Darkstar, the Hypersonic Jet in ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ Could Become a Real Plane Skip to main content
Following the hypersonic descent through the atmosphere, S29 performed a powered vertical landing above the ocean before splashing into the Indian Ocean. [37] Elon Musk said that the ship maintained subsonic control but landed approximately 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) away from the target splashdown location. [38]