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Thursday, August 18, 2011

DARPA's HTV-2 may have Self-Terminated

While the plan was to fly a lot longer, 3 minutes of data while stable at speeds in excess of Mach 15 has to be counted as a success in my book.  A few details are provided in the link below.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-08/darpa-fills-us-htv-2s-semi-successful-flight-and-very-successful-crash

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