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National Defense November 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Hypersonic Weapons Can Defeat the Tyranny of Time, Distance When the intelligence community tracks down a high value target such as a terrorist group leader having a meeting with his top lieutenants, commanders want the ability to send a missile his way before his tea grows cold.  |
Popular Mechanics January 2007 Noah Shachtman |
Hypersonic Cruise Missile: America's New Global Strike Weapon The mission: Attack anywhere in the world in less than an hour. But is the Pentagon's bold program a critical new weapon for hitting elusive targets, or a good way to set off a nuclear war?  |
National Defense August 2015 Stew Magnuson |
Hypersonic Weapons Race Gathers Speed What nation wouldn't want a weapon that closes in on its target at Mach 10, or about 7,500 mph?  |
IEEE Spectrum April 2010 James Oberg |
U.S. Air Force Launches Secret Flying Twinkie Military's new space plane tests unnamed powers  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 J.R. Wilson |
DARPA Black Swift Seeks to Capitalize on Lessons Learned From NASP DARPA and the U.S. Air Force have joined efforts to develop a hypersonic aerospace vehicle to function as a low-Earth-orbit spacecraft and capable of speeds as fast as Mach 6.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2005 DeBlois et al. |
Star-Crossed Should the United States, or any nation for that matter, weaponize space? From orbiting lasers to metal rods that strike from the heavens, the potential to wage war from space raises startling possibilities---and serious problems.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004 |
U.S. space experts focus on reusable launch systems for small satellites The business of orbital satellites continues to grow, and the biggest growth in demand is coming from the smallest payloads.  |
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2004 Dean Andreadis |
Technology: Scramjets integrate air and space As the 21st century unfolds, a revolutionary engine technology is aiming to fly craft at high Mach speeds and seamlessly integrate air-to-space operations.  |
Popular Mechanics December 28, 2009 Michael Belfiore |
The Top 9 Airplane Tech Advances of the Last 10 Years The past decade has seen enhancements in everything from cargo planes to hypersonics.  |
National Defense December 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Strategic Command Pushing Divisive `Conventional Trident' Plan The concept sounds simple: arm land- or sea-based missiles such as the Minuteman or the Trident D-5 with conventional rather than nuclear warheads to give the U.S. military the ability to strike almost anywhere in the world within 60 minutes of a launch decision. Is it the right technology?  |
National Defense December 2004 Joe Pappalardo |
Air Force Mulling Over Programs to Kill, Protect Satellites in Space Warfare Much to the consternation of advocates who oppose the use of arms in space, the Air Force is speaking bluntly about its right and intention to explore the orbital deployment of weapons platforms.  |
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Carl Hoffman |
China's Space Threat: How Missiles Could Target U.S. Satellites The Chinese have successfully destroyed an old weather satellite in space, prompting other countries to respond.  |
The Motley Fool December 24, 2010 Rich Smith |
Boeing Is Building a Star Fleet Boeing has just proved the concept the interplanetary space travel. Unmanned, admittedly. Accidentally, perhaps. But proved it nonetheless.  |
National Defense December 2005 Harold Kennedy |
Pentagon Eyes Growing Short-Range Missile Threat Defense Department officials are warning that terrorists soon could strike U.S. cities with short-range missiles.  |
Wired April 2002 George Lewis & Theodore Postol |
Shoot To Kill Two MIT rocket scientists have a dire warning for Washington: The Bush plan for national missile defense won't work. Here's one that will...  |
Popular Mechanics January 28, 2010 Rand Simberg |
End Of The Shuttle Era: 24 Years after Challenger Twenty-four years after the Challenger disaster, space analysts reflect on the influence of that failed launch on the future of private and public space flight.  |
National Defense November 2015 Stew Magnuson |
Air Force Research Lab Tries to Stay Ahead of Rivals The Air Force Research Laboratory has a list of what it calls five "game changers" that will help maintain the Air Force's reputation of creating cutting edge technologies.  |
The Motley Fool March 29, 2004 Brian Gorman |
Orbital Sciences Up, Up, and Away The successful test of NASA's X-43A scramjet is good news for the company.  |
Popular Mechanics July 2006 Jeff Wise |
Flying Off The Drawing Board New technology is poised to transform aviation, finally making Personal Air Vehicles possible.  |
Popular Mechanics February 9, 2009 Glenn Reynolds |
Can Obama Ban Space Weapons Successfully? Soon after President Obama took office, the White House Web site stated that the administration would seek a worldwide ban on weapons interfering with military and commercial satellites.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2010 Erico Guizzo |
Tech in Sight Three ways to move people - fast, faster, fastest. For the speed boost that was promised us in so many futuristic movies, look to these three technologies.  |
Popular Mechanics January 24, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
Secret Test at Air Force Base Aims to Break Land Speed Record Next week, engineers at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico will try to break a land speed record, blasting a rail-mounted rocket sled at Mach 8.9 during a test of a classified Navy system.  |
National Defense October 2015 Allyson Versprille |
Analysts: U.S. Must Ramp Up Space Program The United States needs to put more emphasis on advancing space-based capabilities if it hopes to maintain its strategic advantage over China, analysts said.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2011 James Oberg |
12 Space Shuttle Missions That Weren't A look at some of the gutsier (and goofier) proposed space shuttle missions  |
Popular Mechanics December 2008 Erik Sofge |
The Hardware Behind Missile Protection The Missile Defense Agency has alternatives to deal with varying types of missile attacks.  |
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 G. Pascal Zachary |
The World According to DARPA The most famous name in American innovation today isn't Apple or Google. It's DARPA. Here's why  |
Popular Mechanics September 2007 David Noland |
10 Plane Crashes That Changed Aviation Here are eight crashes and two emergency landings whose influence is felt -- for the good -- each time you step on a plane.  |
Geotimes September 2005 |
Discovery Returns to Flight The space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off at 10:39 a.m. on July 26, successfully returning NASA to flight after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus.  |