HyShot Scramjet Program On Track

ROCKET SCIENCE

HyShot Scramjet Program On Track For Another Woomera Test

HyShot's first outing last year ended in failure but the Queensland University team is ready to try again July 30

Woomera - Jul 18, 2002
This week's unsuccessful Japanese aeronautical experiment at Woomera, Australia, is unlikely to cause delays to the international HyShot program to test a scramjet in flight for the first time in the world.

HyShot program leader Dr Allan Paull of The University of Queensland's Centre for Hypersonics said his research team had been informed that recent events would not affect the scramjet testing schedule.

"We hope to conduct our experiment on July 30 at the Department of Defence's Woomera Prohibited Area, 500 kilometres north of Adelaide," he said.

The Royal Australian Air Force's Aircraft Research and Development Unit (ARDU) is assisting the Hyshot Project Team.

The rocket launch will be conducted from a launch pad about 1km from the Aircraft Research and Development Unit's Instrumented Building at Woomera Prohibited Range.

Scramjets are air-breathing supersonic combustion ramjet engines which could revolutionise the launch of small space payloads such as communication satellites by substantially lowering costs.

The HyShot program has helped establish Australia at the forefront of hypersonic technological research.

HyShot team members left this week for Woomera to finalize their experimental campaign in preparation for the launch.

ROCKET SCIENCE

ADD IN JAP FAILURE

DARPA Team Fire Up Scramjet Engine For Future Cruise Missile

Hampton - Jul 11, 2002
In a wind tunnel in Hampton, Virginia , on the 30th of May this year, a new kind of cruise missile engine, called a scramjet, was fired up. Just like any other cruise missile engine, it used conventional liquid hydrocarbon fuel, but this one was a mite different. In simulated hypersonic conditions, this engine reached MACH 6.5 speeds at 90,000 feet altitude.

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