Hypersonic trials paving the way for budget satellite launches

摘要

Hypersonic flight (more than five times the speed of sound) offers low-cost alternatives to launch satellites into space and the University of Queensland's Centre for Hypersonics is leading the way with one test flight this year and another on the way. The first involved the latest trial of the joint Australla-US Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HIFiRE) Program conducted recently at the Andoya Rocket Range in Norway.