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NASA Tests X-43A

Posted by michael on from the need-for-speed dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NASA TV has live coverage of the launch of the X-43A scram jet flight. Hopes are that the unmanned vehicle will reach speeds in excess of mach 7-10. The last flight a few years ago failed." Stephen Watts sends this link for X-43A background information.

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  1. Nooooooooo!!! by pwroberts · · Score: 5, Funny

    Noooo, don't Slashdot it, you insensitive clods!

    I was getting a great feed of the boring pre-launch stuff for the last 2 hours, now y'all'll've gone and ruined it ;-(

    1. Re:Nooooooooo!!! by Gogo+Dodo · · Score: 4, Funny

      Use the Windows Media Player feed, nobody on /. will ever be using that. Or they won't admit it...

  2. Speed doesn't matter by elFarto+the+2nd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even if its moving at mach 7...we can still slashdot it!

    Regards
    elFarto

  3. $185 million dollar project... by levram2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and they can't show a readable countdown timer on the screen.

  4. Re:mach 5?!? by technoid_ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thats one fast RV. I thought 110mph in a Winnebago was fast, but this beats that hand down.

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    Two wrongs don't make a right, but 3 lefts do - Lew of GO magazine
  5. Re:Launch successful by Rick.C · · Score: 4, Funny
    Tests completed through Mach 5, it seems. I thought this would go to Mach 7?

    Well yeah, but that's with overclocking.

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    You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
    "Math in a song is good."-Linford
  6. Childhood Memories... by PetoskeyGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Circumfrence of Earth / Mach 5

    It would take about 6 and a half hours to get from here and back again.

    So in "Hare We Go" when Bugs Bunny threw the baseball around the world to show Christopher Columbus that the world is round, he threw the ball at about Mach 785 or so. Somehow he managed to put enough spin on it that it orbited the planet, the natives applied the stickers, AND he caught the ball.