Posted on 04/28/2010 9:48:29 PM PDT by Nachum
The Pentagon’s controversial plan to hit terrorists half a planet away suffered a setback this weekend, after an experimental hypersonic glider disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.
In its first flight test. the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) was supposed to be rocket-launched from California to the edge of space.
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or did it ?
Yeah, but will she make .5 past light speed?
So, what's happening with the X-37? Wasn't this one launched this week?
Maybe it went so fast it ran into itself.
Oh, now I get it.. The X-37 shot it down. I’m still confused though.
One system would enable hypersonic precision strikes around the world without warning, and the other might deliver space marines
Barely an hour after the HTV-2 debut, the U.S. Air Force launched its X-37B space plane. That much-anticipated mission lofted the space plane -- powered by gallium arsenide solar cells with lithium-ion batteries -- into orbit for possibly as long as 270 days, according to the Ares Defense Blog."
After years of planning, and a series of recent weather delays, it was by complete chance that both tests took place so close together. At this point we know that both vehicles launched successfully, and separated from their respective boosters. The rest of the story remains to be told, but is expected to unfold (in the case of the HTV-2 at least), in more detail on Friday."
OK, so we've recently learned the HTV-2 meet with an "unexpected" loss of signal, yet no word on the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle after successful launch. I'm sure we can expect to hear nothing regaurding it's progress.
I’d like to know how a ‘glider’ makes it to Mach 20.
So the X-37 is still functioning well after deployment? Who wants to bet the X-37 has windows.. It’s billed as unmanned, but I notice that the area where the windows would be is either not shown or covered with tarp. Hmmmm...
Obambi would have cancelled it anyway.
Or make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs?
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I always found that weird. Aren’t parsecs units of distance, not time?
Yup. SW fans have an explanation that suits their logic, something about Kessel (the planet upon which Spice is mined) being surrounded by black holes, and that the shortest route involves tight navigation through this maze of BHs (rather than taking the longer, safer passage around the BH cluster). The ‘normal’ Spice smuggler’s route was c. 18 parsecs. QED, Solo and the Millenium Falcon are the hottest things in space, because they can take the short(est), albeit most dangerous, route.
Make sense to you? Yeah, I thought so. Methinks George Lucas screwed the pooch, and now an elaborate back story has been created to cover the fluff.
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