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<pre wrap="">On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Damien Broderick <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com"><thespike@satx.rr.com></a> wrote:
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The craft flew at six times the speed of sound for three minutes and 20
seconds, according to the Associated Press. A B-52 Stratofortress released
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<pre wrap="">The previous record for a hypersonic scramjet burn was just 12 seconds,
according to the report.
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Aside from the geek factor, why is this good? What applications
require mach 6+ ?
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<a href="http://www.tethers.com/OrbitToOrbit.html">HASTOL</a> and other
rotovator spacelaunch techniques. But it needs around Mach 12 as I
understand it except for skyhook variants where the receiving in comes
nearly to rest at certain points in its orbit. <br>
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