Australia’s DSTO has been doing hypersonic experiments in Woomera, South Australia and Norway. In 2018, it plans to launch a glider with an air-breathing scramjet engine that will cruise at hypersonic ...

A small group of Australian scientists made aviation history July 30 with the successful atmospheric test of a supersonic air-breathing engine in flight. Working with a budget most big science ...

WOOMERA, Australia, July 31 (UPI) -- An international aerospace research consortium achieved a milestone in aviation Tuesday with the first-ever successful test flight of a new type of jet engine ...

In what may be a world first, an Australian scramjet — a supersonic combustion ramjet — was launched into the air at Woomera, South Australia, on Tuesday. "The rocket went off but whether the ...

WASHINGTON — A long-awaited test of an Australian supersonic combustion ramjet, or scramjet, engine ended in failure Sept. 18 when the rocket carrying the experiment was unable to reach the proper ...

Australia has launched a hypersonics initiative to capitalise on its first experimental flight of a supersonic-combustion ramjet (scramjet). The Australian, New South Wales and Queensland governments, ...

A supersonic scramjet engine has been successfully launched from a test range in Australia. The Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) said the scramjet achieved reached 10 ...

After a few minor delays, the HyShot scramjet project was launched on Tuesday at Woomera, South Australia at about 1300 local time (0200 GMT). The international HyShot team, led by the University of ...

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Australia’s SCRAMSPACE bid to study hypersonic flight with an eye to informing development of Mach 5-plus scramjet-powered vehicles to orbit satellites has generated a big splash but little data – ...