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X-43A Flight Schedule Update

X-43A Flight Schedule Update
Posted on: Oct. 30th, 2004 || www.nasa.gov

Oct. 30th, 2004 - X-43A Flight Schedule Update

A news media briefing to discuss the upcoming final X-43A hypersonic research flight is planned for Friday, Nov. 5, 2004, at 10 a.m. PST at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. The briefing will be carried live on NASA Television.

The last flight of the series of three X-43A research missions in NASA's Hyper-X program is planned to fly as soon as the restricted Navy Pacific Ocean test range off the coast of Southern California becomes available, but no earlier than Nov. 8. The high-risk mission is intended to gather data on the operation of the X-43A's revolutionary supersonic-combustion ramjet (or "scramjet") engine at a record speed of almost 10 times the speed of sound.

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