Hypersonic missiles and space rockets already exist, but more test flights are needed before commercial airline passengers can be whisked around the world in a couple of hours.
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What does the new generation of offensive missiles mean for global security?
Missiles that fly 3,000 mph or faster – much faster than the speed of sound – are the next generation of high-technology weapons.
China has upped its defence spending and is investing heavily in revolutionary technologies that could transform its military into the world’s most powerful force by the middle of the century.
The military is interested – but the rest of us could also get from Paris to Tokyo in three hours.
On September 18 this year, far above the Arctic Circle at Norway’s Andoya Rocket Range, the SCRAMSPACE hypersonic scramjet flight experiment was about to launch. Three and a half years of intense effort…
Late last week the Defence Advanced Research Programs Agency (DARPA) in the USA launched a second flight of a craft called the HTV-2, designed to glide at Mach 20 while re-entering the earth’s atmosphere…
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China researcher, Macquarie University
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Chair for Space Engineering, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Aeronautical Engineering, University of Salford
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Professor of Hypersonic Aerodynamics, The University of Queensland
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Director of the Center for National Security Initiatives and Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Hypersonics, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, The University of Queensland
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Professor of International Relations and Security, University of Bradford