LIVE Thread - X43-A Mach 10 Launch

NASA TV Live ^ | 11/16/2004 | JAMBE

[Jambe]

Live thread of 3rd and final X43-A drop.

Drop scheduled approx 5:30 EST. B52 is airborne.

[Jambe]

B52 making final turn - heading West.

[asgardshill]

Cool - two Mach 5s.

[ChadGore]

If the Pegasus firing and separation goes well, this should be a good flight.

[Poohbah]

Plus, I wonder what the "cost" would be if the US were to incur a nuclear Pearl Harbor because we did not develop this and someone else did.

I'm of the same school as the late Ben Rich: nobody's demonstrated a scramjet that actually generated net positive thrust, and nobody has a clue of how to achieve that goal.

[ChadGore]

God speed x10

[PhotoFixer3]

[ChadGore]

USA Bump

[ChadGore]

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[ChadGore]

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[Jambe]

6.5 minutes to drop.

[ZGuy]

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[ChadGore]

A

[Brett66]

BTTT.

[Jambe]

Transfer power to X43-A. T-5

[ChadGore]

Speed kills (c)Franks

[Jambe]

Speed Mach .637 being displayed - pre drop.

[ChadGore]

Keep the updates coming, thank you :)

can anytone do screen shots ?

[Jambe]

T-2 minutes.

[Jambe]

L-3 Go for launch

[ZGuy]

still time to catch it live online at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html