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SDC:
Italian Space Plane Prototype to Attempt Daring Maneuvers
Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle
One $14m step towards scramjets for access to space
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SDC:
Italian Space Plane Prototype to Attempt Daring Maneuvers
Related Wiki article :Jeremy Hsu":1whxnqkk said:
Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle
Related news from the University of Queensland:The IXV is scheduled to make its first orbiting flight in 2012, launched by Vega, Europe’s new small launcher.
One $14m step towards scramjets for access to space
...Published: 27 February 2010
The University of Queensland will lead a $14 million international consortium to help develop scramjet-based access-to-space systems, flying an autonomous scramjet vehicle at eight times the speed of sound – Mach 8, or 8600 km/h.
In parallel, scramjet concepts will be tested at even greater speeds, up to Mach 14, in UQ's world class hypersonic ground-test facilities.
...Partners in the new program include four Australian universities — UQ, the University of Adelaide, the University of New South Wales, and the University of Southern Queensland; and a US university, the University of Minnesota.
It also includes three international aerospace organisations — DLR in Germany, JAXA of Japan and CIRA of Italy; Australia's Defence Science and Technology Organisation; the Australian Youth Aerospace Association; and industry partners including Brisbane firm Teakle Composites Pty Ltd, Cairns firm AIMTEK Pty Ltd, BAE Systems Australia, and Boeing Research and Technology Australia.
“Access to – getting into – space is necessary for the deployment of space-based systems and technologies for communications, remote sensing, climate monitoring and space science, “ Professor Boyce said.
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